This book aims to provide a guide and a resource for veterinary professionals who decide to carry out palliative and hospice care through an organized and structured system that applies to animals the concepts of human palliative and hospice care.

Authors

Introduction

Preface

Acronyms

 

Part one

Palliative therapies and end-of-life (hospice) care: what they are, why, when and how they apply

 

Part two

Protocols of palliative end-of-life care

 

Part three

Quality of life, authanasia and bioethical considertions

 

Part four

Models of palliative care and veterinary team

 

Part five

Communications skills, caregiver burden and veterinary burnout

Giorgia della Rocca

Department of Veterinary Medicine

University of Perugia

 

Maria Beatrice Conti