Symptom Relief In Palliative Care delivers in its commitment to serve as a clear, concise resource that can be quickly consulted to guide patient care. Its efficiency of use derives from the intuitive organization and layout of its information-dense content. The Clinical Decision And Action Checklist and Key Points leading each new clinical topic serve to focus the reader on the information that follows. The problem-oriented summary tables addressing clinical decisions and actions are driven by potential clinical scenarios, quickly guiding a pragmatic approach to a problem at hand. Where a solid evidence base is not yet available for a specific issue, this is acknowledged and a best-practice approach is presented, based on the extensive experience of the authors and the best information available. The growing literature informing the practice of palliative care is reflected in the up-to-date references in this edition. Symptom Relief In Palliative Care serves as a distinctly practical and problem-oriented resource for clinicians providing palliative and end-of-life care. The text has evolved to reflect continued developments in available treatments, changes in areas of policy and ethics, and the ever-broadening scope of the clinical practice of palliative care.