Life care planning editors, Michel Lacerte, Cloie B. Johnson.

EBSCO PDA Program

"August 2013."

"Clinics review articles"--Cover.

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Rehabilitation planning and services

Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Consulting Editor; Editors; Authors; Forthcoming Issues; Forthcoming Issues; Recent Issues; Life Care Planning; Life Care Planning; The Life Care Planning Process; Key points; Introduction; History; Transdisciplinary perspective; Definition; Training, education, and certification; Who prepares life care plans?; Descriptions of certification programs; Life care plan resources; Philosophic overview and basis; Ethical considerations; Process; Summary; The Person with a Spinal Cord Injury; Key points

Introduction: the anatomic injury determines dysfunction and life care plan designThe ASIA examination: determining spinal cord impairments; Patterns of impairment after SCI: spinal cord syndromes; Rehabilitation for patients with SCI: identification of problems and goals; Problem-oriented chart review: identification of needs and organization planning; Outpatient rehabilitation: heath maintenance and community adaptation; Life care planning: translating ongoing treatment into a community-based care plan; Potential complications: possible diagnoses associated with SCI

Conclusions: life care plans are dynamic guides that prevent complication and enable potentialThe components of the life care plan: spinal cord-specific content; Life Care Planning After Traumatic Brain Injury; Key points; Introduction; Medical contribution to the TBI life care plan; Life care plan domains relevant to TBI casework; Supporting recommendations with adequate science; Common faux pas in TBI life care plan casework; Caveats for reviewing TBI life care plans; Summary; Appendix 1 The Basic Tenets of Life Care Planning; Appendix 2 A Critical Physician Review of a Life Care Plan

The Person with Amputation and Their Life Care PlanKey points; Introduction; Patient issues; Future medical needs; Summary; Life Care Planning for the Child with Cerebral Palsy; Key points; Introduction; Summary; Considerations for Neuropathic Pain Conditions in Life Care Planning; Key points; Introduction; Gender differences; Diagnosis; Mechanisms of neuropathic pain; Pharmacologic management; Complementary and alternative medicine approaches; Rehabilitation medicine approaches; Implantable systems for neuropathic pain-spinal cord stimulators and pain pumps

Life care planning for patients with neuropathic painSummary; Vocational Rehabilitation Process and Work Life; Key points; Introduction; Vocational rehabilitation process; Medical foundation for vocational rehabilitation assessment; Vocational and rehabilitation assessment; Records review and rehabilitation interview; Labor market research and inquiry; Rehabilitation analysis and opinion formulation; Psychometric measurement; Future medical care needs; Transferable skills analysis; Employability and placeability; Wage earning capacity; Work-life participation

This issue of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics devoted to Life Care Planning is Guest Edited by Michel Lacerte, MD, Richard Paul Bonfiglio, MD, and Cloie B. Johnson, M.Ed., ABVE, CCM. This issue will focus on the long-term care of a patient's rehabilitation, typically after a major life event. Articles in this issue will focus on the life care planning of patients with spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury, spinal pain, Cerebral Palsy, neuropathic pain, and life care planning for amputees. Other articles in this issue include: The Life Care Planning Process; The Physiatrist's R.