Specialized Pediatric Palliative Care [Paperback]

This compact volume offers a brief overview of pediatric palliative care and emerging ways to expand and provide palliative care to children.

Pediatric palliative care is a new specialty that is rapidly expanding across the United States. The specialty has impact throughout the lifespan of children with serious illness and supports patients, families, and those who care for children.

Authored by clinicians with expertise and extensive experience in palliative care and hospice medicine, the topics covered in the volume's five chapters include:

• Introduction and Definitions
• Pediatric Palliative Care Involvement in Specific Disciplines
• Pediatric Palliative Care at End of Life
• Accessing Pediatric Palliative Care
• The Future of Pediatric Palliative Care

Specialized Pediatric Palliative Care is essential reading for pediatric healthcare professionals with short, easy-to-read contents applicable to actual practice. Other providers and professionals working with children and families with serious illness also might find the book of interest.

1. Introduction and Definitions.- 2. Pediatric Palliative Care Involvement in Specific Populations.- 3. Pediatric Palliative Care at End of Life.- 4. Accessing Pediatric Palliative Care.- 5. The Future of Pediatric Palliative Care.- .

Claudia Delgado-Corcoran, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and works in the Divisions of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Palliative Care at Primary Children?s Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT. She is originally from Bogota, Colombia, where she attended medical school. She received her Master of Public Health from the University of South Carolina. She completed Pediatric Residency and Pediatrlƒ4