PalliativeCare

Increased patient demand means GPs require training focusing on key specialties needed in the community, such as dermatology, palliative care and psychiatry  

Palliative care is a branch of medicine in which the UK has a long and creative record, and the shortlist for the Palliative Care Team award shows no evidence of any loss of momentum. Shortlisted entries covered the extension of palliative care to conditions other than cancer, the use of new technology and pain control to make patients’ lives better, and the introduction of personalised end of life pathways, finds Nigel Hawkes.  

A new randomized clinical trial with Dartmouth investigators Kathleen Lyons, ScD, Tor Tosteson, ScD, Zhigang Li, PhD, and collaborators has noted significant improvement in several measures...  

When a nursing home patient is dying, aggressive interventions such as inserting a feeding tube or sending the patient to the emergency room can futilely exacerbate, rather than relieve, their...  

The AMA has released its new Position Statement on Palliative Approach in Residential Aged Care Facilities.  

The UK's palliative care system needs a major overhaul, according to an LSE report released Wednesday 8 April which reveals widespread inequities and a lack of services for non-cancer patients.  

A new study published in CMAJ Open may dispel serious misunderstandings about assisted death and palliative care in Belgium, according to authors Drs.  

Palliative Care in the Emergency Department - The Time is Now  

Palliative care in the emergency department? Absolutely! This post outlines an approach to palliative care that can be used in the ED.  

Improving palliative care in the ICU is the goal of the Center to Advance Palliative Care's IPAL Project.  

Palliative Medicine Teaching. 4,695 likes · 528 talking about this. Palliative Care can teach us a lot. Let's stop these futile tugs of war and remember...  

People with an incurable illness may receive palliative care, which involves making the person as comfortable as possible by controlling pain and other distressing symptoms. People receiving palliative care commonly experience constipation. This is as a result of the use of medicines (e.g. morphine) for pain control, as well as disease, dietary and mobility factors. There is a wide range of laxatives available. The aim of this review was to determine what we know about the effectiveness of laxatives for the management of constipation in people receiving palliative care.  

The use of volunteers in community palliative care services can extend the range of activities offered to support people who are terminally ill. The types of training and support for volunteers are likely to affect their effectiveness and influence the quality of care provided to people requiring palliative care and their families. Training and support may also be costly for palliative care organisations.    

PV Card: Palliative Care Screening in the Emergency Department  

Illness trajectories depicting how function declines to death with certain diseases, such as cancer, can help with palliative care. Creutzfeldt and colleagues propose a fourth trajectory is needed for patients with severe acute brain injury to improve decision making and standards of care  

Viscount Bridgeman has led a debate on the future of hospices and palliative care services.