Supportive Care for the Urology Patient

This book provides a practical, evidence-based overview of the supportive care of patients with urological failure, covering issues such as quality of life measurements, the role of the multidisciplinary team, and psychological and social support for patients, families and carers. The book focuses on chronic symptoms such as chronic prostatitis.

It begins by looking at quality of life measurements, self-help strategies, the role of the interdisciplinary team, and psychological and social support. It then moves on to clinical chapters which cover issues such as patients who present with hematuria, urinary retention, urinary incontinence, neurological disease affecting the urinary tract, chronic prostatitis, and infertility; ending with a chapter on supportive care for the urology patient and family in the future. The book places a special emphasis on symptomatic interventions, particularly in the setting where the course of the illness cannot be modified.


Readership: Aimed primarily at specialists in palliative care and specialist urologists in post or in training, the book also appeals to primary care doctors and specialist urological and genito-urinary nurses.


1: Richard W. Norman: Introduction to supportive care issues for the urology patient
2: Robert A. Cummins & Anna L. D. Lau: Quality of life measurements
3: Rodney H. Breau: Self-help strategies
4: Reena Karani & Diane E. Meier: Role of the interdisciplinary team in urological supportive care
5: Aru Narayanasamy: Psychological and spiritual support
6: Lorna Butler: The patient and family
7: Ernest Lawrence Rossi: The bioinformatics of integrative medicine in urology
8: Darrel E. Drachenburg & Kamal Mattar: The patient presenting with hematuria
9: Nicholas J. Hegarty, Ciaran F. Healy & John M. Fitzpatrick: The patient presenting with urinary retention
10: Hugh Flood & Jane MacDonald: The patient presenting with urinary incontinence
11: Scott MacDiarmid: The patient presenting with neurological disease affecting the urinary tract
12: Carin V. Hopps & John P. Mulhall: The patient presenting with sexual dysfunction
13: Alvaro Morales: The patient presenting with androgen deficiency
14: Zbigniew Wolski: The patient presenting with requirements for a urinary diversion or reservoir
15: Lindsay E. Nicolle: The patient presenting with recalcitrant urinary tract infections
16: R. Ashley McLellan & Peter A. M. Anderson: The patient presenting with chronic prostatitis
17: Paul Toren & Wendy Wobeser: The patient presenting with genitourinary AIDS
18: Jerzy B. Gajewski: The patient presenting with painful bladder syndrome
19: David Nicol & Catherine Martin: Supportive care for the renal transplant patient
20: Gregory G. Bailly: The patient presenting with a genitourinary prosthesis
21: Allan B. Patrick: The patient presenting with benign genitourinary pain
22: Florian Heid & Jürgen Jage: The patient presenting with malignant genitourinary pain
23: M. A. Fischer: Evaluation and treatment of the infertile male
24: Franco Mantero & Nora Albiger: The patient presenting with an overactive adrenal gland
25: Hans-Göran Tiselius: The patient presenting with frequently recurring urinary tract calculi
26: Villus Marshall: The patient presenting with ureteric obstruction
27: David C. Currow: Supportive care for the urology patient and family in the future



Richard W. Norman and David C. Currow





Contributors:
Nora Albiger, Division of Endocrinology, University of Padova, Italy; Peter A. M. Anderson, Department of Urology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada; Gregory G. Bailly, Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada; Rodney H. Breau, Resident, Division of Urology, University of Ottawa, Canada; Lorna Butler, Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Department of Urology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada; Robert A. Cummins, Professor of Psychology, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia; David C. Currow, Professor and Head, Department of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia; Darrel E. Drachenburg, Urologic Oncologist, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Director of Research, University of Manitoba, Canada; M. A. Fischer, Division of Urology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; John M. Fitzpatrick, Professor of Surgery, University College Dublin; Consultant Urologist, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Hugh Flood, Consultant Urologist, Midwestern Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland; Jerzy B. Gajewski, Department of Urology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada; Ciaran F. Healy, Senior House Officer, Department of Surgery, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Nicholas J. Hegarty, Specialist Registrar in Urology, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Florian Heid, Pain Service, Department of Anaesthesiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Hospital, Mainz, Germany; Carin V. Hopps, Assistant Professor of Urology, Medical College of Ohio, USA; Jürgen Jage, Pain Service, Department of Anaesthesiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Hospital, Mainz, Germany; Reena Karani, Assistant Professor; Director, Geriatrics Consultation and Liaison Service, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA; Anna L. D. Lau, Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong; Scott MacDiarmid, Department of Urology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA; Jane MacDonald, Registrar in Urology, Midwestern Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland; Franco Mantero, Division of Endocrinology, University of Padova, Italy; Villus Marshall, Surgical Specialty Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia; Catherine Martin, Renal Transplant Unit, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; Kamal Mattar, Urology Resident, University of Manitoba, Canada; R. Ashley McLellan, Department of Urology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada; Diane E. Meier, Professor of Geriatrics and Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA; Alvaro Morales, Department of Urology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada; John P. Mulhall, Associate Professor of Urology, New York Weill Cornell University Medical Center, USA; Aru Narayanasamy, Senior Health Lecturer, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, UK; David Nicol, Renal Transplant Unit, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; Lindsay E. Nicolle, Professor of Internal Medicine and Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Canada; Richard W. Norman, Professor and Chairman, Department of Urology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada; Allan B. Patrick, Department of Urology, Dr Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital, Fredericton, Canada; Ernest Lawrence Rossi, Director of Ernest Lawrence Rossi Foundation for Psychogenomic Research, California, USA; Hans-Göran Tiselius, Professor of Urology, Huddinge University Hospital; Division of Urology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Paul Toren, Medical Student, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada; Wendy Wobeser, Assistant Professor and Medical Director, Clinical Immunology Clinic, Queen's University and Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Canada; Zbigniew Wolski, Professor of Urology, The Ludwig Rydygier Medical University in Bydgoszoz; Head of Department of Urology, University Hospital, Poland