Palliative Care for Infants, Children, and Adolescents: A Practical Handbook

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Summary: Comprehensive, Practical and Sensitive
Review: Palliative Care for Infants, Children, and Adolescents: A Practical Handbook is a beautifully written, practical resource for any health-care professional who works with children and families. Rather than laying out only checklists and protocols, the authors focus on the process of decision-making and relationships formed with families. This edited volume retains a strong and supportive voice throughout as it sensitively and directly addresses some of the most difficult situations that health-care-providers (and families) face. It weaves in not only specific suggestions for managing medically difficult and emotionally complex situations but also frameworks for understanding and more broadly applying these approaches. Don't wait until you are faced with a crisis to look at this book -- use it as a guide to think about end-of-life and chronic care for children long before conflict or crisis emerges.