Paediatric Palliative Medicine

Richard Hain is a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine at the Children's Hospital for Wales, UK. Dr Hain's academic background is varied and includes postgraduate degrees in pharmacology, professional education and ethics and theology. He has co-authored over fifty research and review articles, four books on children's palliative medicine and a large number of book chapters. His primary research interest is in the principles and practice of paediatric palliative medicine, and he is increasingly focussing on clinical ethics in children at the end of life. He is honorary Senior Lecturer at Bangor University as well as Visiting Professor at University of Glamorgan.Satbir Singh Jassal is the Medical Director of Rainbows Children's Hospice, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK. He is one of the UK's longest serving hospice doctors, and has honorary lecturer status at Cardiff Medical School. In addition, he chairs a number of national groups including the Association of Paediatric Palliative Medicine.

This small slim volume will fit comfortably in any pocket and its physical size belies the amount of information it holds and it seems to provide a very good and clinically practicable summary of the field...this book should be available on the library shelf in any paediatric ward, for easy reference when palliative care problems arise.

• 1: Paediatric palliative medicine- philosophy and practice 2: Models of paediatric palliative care 3: Ethics in palliative care 4: Pain: introduction 5: Pain: evaluation 6: Pain step 3, major opiods 7: Adjuvants 8: Nausea and vomiting 9: Gastrointestinal symptoms 10: Mouth care, feeding and hydration 11: Dyspnoea 12: Neurological symptoms 13: Psychological symptoms 14: Skin symptoms 15: Palliative care emergencies 16: Malignant diseases 17: Specific non-malignant diseases 18: Palliative care in intensive care environments 19: Practicalities around time of death 20: Religion and ritual 21: Bereavement 22: Communication skills 23: Communication among professionals 24: Coping skills 25: Education and training 26: Formulary