Andrew Dickman, Consultant Pharmacist, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Blackpool, Lancashire, UK, and Jennifer Schneider, Associate Professor, Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Australia

Andrew is the Consultant Pharmacist for Palliative Care at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a project lead at the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute, University of Liverpool and was appointed Honorary Lecturer at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University in 2010. His job involves clinical work, research and education and he is also an Independent Prescriber. Andrew is the author of several books, including Drugs in Palliative Care, The Syringe Driver and Chronic Pain, part of the Oxford Pain Management Library. He is also a co-author of Drugs in Cancer. He has contributed chapters to several books, including the Care of the Dying, Wall and Melzacks Textbook of Pain and Palliative Medicine.

"Andrew Dickman and Jennifer Schneider [have] produced a well-written, well-referenced, and efficient treatment of the modern syringe driver for subcutaneous infusions as used in palliative care. Importantly and distinctively, the authors combined laboratory data with clinical observations to produce both a useable and practical text. This book serves well as a reference for any medical professional who commonly or uncommonly interacts with, orders, or adjusts syringe drivers with drugs for CSCI, even if not for use in palliative care." - R. Ryan Field, Anesthesia & Analgesia

"... an important addition to the bookshelf of any palliative care clinician, nursing or medical, whose patients require continuous subcutaneous infusion." - John Haberecht, Director of Learning & Development, Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education

"This book should be available in any hospice or palliative care service where CSCIs are used, which probably means nearly all of them." - IAHPC, Roger Woodruff