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| 121 | Palliative Care: When to Refer a Patient and How to Have This Important Discussion A slide show presentation Webinar to review the differences between hospice and palliative care services, role of palliative care in HF, discuss the management of symptoms commonly experienced by HF patients at end of life and address important issues in advance care planning for patients with HF. |
| 122 | Palliative Pain and Symptom Management Pocket Reference Guide The Palliative Pain and Symptom Management Pocket Refer-ence Guide provides pain and symptom management informa-tion; this information is not medical advice. This guide was developed as general information for physicians and registered nurses with palliative care expertise only; physicians and nurses should exercise their own independent clinical judg-ment. |
| 123 | Pathway for Renal Palliative Care Services in Western Australia This document describes a care pathway for the establishment of an integrated patientcentric multi-disciplinary renal palliative care service. The service has a strong linkage with the palliative care team and primary care practitioners, with active involvement of the patient and carers in decision making. The service encompasses patient and family education, symptom management protocols, advance care planning, Liverpool Care Pathway for the last days and hours of life, and finally bereavement support. |
| 124 | Pediatric Palliative Care Field Guide There are significant differences across a number of dimensions in what constitutes effective palliative care for adults versus infants and children. Infants and children needing palliative care range in age from prenatal to young adult, and interdisciplinary PPC teams care for patients and families with wideranging diagnoses and disease trajectories, often for many years. |
| 125 | Pediatric Palliative Care Medication Dosing & Common Phrase Guide Palliative care is patient and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering. Palliative care throughout the continuum of illness involves addressing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs to facilitate patient autonomy, access to information and choice. |
| 126 | Pediatric Palliative Care: Global Perspectives This book is a major contribution to the process of documenting the development of pediatric palliative care and a tribute to those individuals and teams with the vision and commitment to advance pediatric palliative care. Children worldwide deserve nothing less |
| 127 | Pediatric Palliative Pain and Symptom Management Many children with life-limiting conditions have distressing symptoms not just at the end of life, but throughout the course of their illnesses, which may run years after the initial diagnosis. Because pediatricians treat these children throughout their disease trajectory, it is important to have the basic skills to assess and treat pain and other distressing symptoms. This article reviews pain and symptom assessment and management. |
| 128 | Pediatric-Hospice and Palliative Medicine Competencies Version 2.0 The Hospice and Palliative Medicine Competencies (version 2.3)10 describes a competent subspecialist in hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) caring for patients across the age spectrum. In this spectrum of patients with serious and life-threatening conditions, the pediatric population is a minority with specific needs that are similar and different than the rest of the population. The specific competencies appropriate |
| 129 | Planning and implementing palliative care services: a guide for programme managers. This is a practical manual on how to plan and implement palliative care services, integrated into existing health-care services, at national or subnational level. It has been designed primarily for health programme managers at national, provincial, or district level, whether they are responsible for noncommunicable diseases, infectious disease programmes, health services, or other technical areas where palliative care is important. |
| 130 | Practical Guidance for Palliative Care Team The present practical guidance was prepared mainly for the palliative care teams that would soon start their activities, those that had no full-time staff, and those that had difficulty in promoting their activities. However, this practical guidance is also useful for the palliative care teams that actively promote their activities. |