Oxford Textbook Of Palliative Medicine (Second Edition)
Edited by Derek Doyle, Geoffrey Hanke, and Neil MacDonald. The second edition of "the Bible of palliative care" is a comprehensive medical textbook and reference volume covering most practical aspects of hospice comfort care for the terminally ill. Covers quality of life assessment, pain and symptom management, pediatric issues, nutrition, psychiatric issues, special roles of members of the caregiving team such as nurses, occupational therapists, and social workers, plus many other topics. Now available in paperback. Published April, 1999.

The American Academy Of Hospice And Palliative Medicine
An international membership organization of physicians dedicated to the advancement of hospice and palliative medicine in the care of the terminally ill. Web site includes information on events and meetings, certification in hospice and palliative care, and a link list. Offers a series of "UNIPAC" self-training modules for physicians who care for terminally ill patients and their families. The UNIPACs offer practical information and suggested interventions related to clinical situations, pain and symptom management, nutrition, ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, and legal matters in terminal care. The UNIPACs are approved for 3 credit hours of CME each. You can search the Growth House database from this site. AAHPM is a member of the Inter-Institutional Collaborating Network On End Of Life Care (IICN) which links major palliative care organizations internationally.

By No Extraordinary Means: The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water
Joanne Lynn M.D., Editor. Intended for a professional palliative care audience, this book examines the medical ethics associated with nutritional care of the terminally ill and the difficult questions surrounding withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. The New England Journal of Medicine describes it as "...thoughtfully written ...well-edited, cohesively integrated... valuable for physicians, nurses, nutritionists, attorneys, members of the clergy... and the general public." Published 1990.

Forgoing Life-Sustaining Therapy
By Margaret L. Campbell, RN, MSN, CS. Foreword by Joanne Lynn MD, MA, MS. Forgoing life-sustaining treatment can be one of the most difficult aspects of care for the dying. This concise and practical book is written for clinical care providers such as nurses and physicians. It gives sensible guidance on tough issues such as how to stop a ventilator, the use of artificial nutrition and hydration, forgoing dialysis, and management of delirium in the final days of life. Illuminating case examples draw out important clinical aspects of care while addressing ethical and legal considerations and the processes of communication and decision making. This authoritative medical resource dispels common myths about forgoing treatment, offers historical background on right-to-die cases, and provides definitions and discussions of ethical principles.

Nutritional Care Of The Terminally Ill
By Charlette R. Gallagher-Allred. A professional book for use by dieticians working in hospice and palliative care settings. Addresses needs, strategies, and ethics for feeding and palliative hydration. This is an update to the author's 1989 reference work on the same topic. Published January, 1997.

Nutritional Care Of The Terminally Ill
By Charlette R. Gallagher-Allred. A professional book for use by dieticians working in hospice and palliative care settings. Addresses needs, strategies, and ethics for feeding and palliative hydration. Published 1989.

Tube Feeding Megasearch
This link performs an automated search for education materials related to tube feeding in the IICN Public Library, a repository of palliative care materials from several respected sources.

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