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Category Archives: SYMPTOM CONTROL
From bed to bench and back: Finding evidence to support our clinical practice
NEW SERIES: Ahead of the 15th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, we are publishing posts from our plenary speakers . . . Today, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen, Professor of Palliative Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital and University … Continue reading
Germany has developed National Guideline on Palliative Care for Patients with Incurable Cancer
For the first time in Germany, a national guideline will provide evidence and consensus-based recommendations for best practice in palliative care. Project team leaders, Claudia Bausewein, Steffen Simon and Raymond Voltz explain. Following a four-year-project under the leadership of the German Association … Continue reading
Palliative care in respiratory disease
Professor David C Currow, Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia and Professor Claudia Bausewein Director of the Department for Palliative Medicine at Munich University Hospital and Chair in Palliative Medicine at Munich University, Germany, and Professor Miriam J Johnson, Professor … Continue reading
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Management of malignant bowel obstruction with Lanreotide for a community palliative care patient
Dr Kate Markham, Dr Shan Shan Vijeratnam and Dr Pia Amsler, Isabel Hospice, Welwyn Garden City, UK, explain the background to their longer article published in the November/December edition of the European Journal of Palliative Care. We are doctors from … Continue reading
Use of antibiotics in Singapore
Dr Eng Koon, Division of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Centre Singapore, explains the background to his longer article, published in the current edition of the European Journal of Palliative Care – a reminder that even common (and seemingly uncomplicated) treatments need … Continue reading
Polypharmacy in an inpatient hospice setting – exploring the patients’ views
Jennie Pickard, Specialist Palliative Care Pharmacist, St Ann’s Hospice, Heald Green, Manchester, UK, explains the background to a longer article in the May/June edition of the European Journal of Palliative Care. Over the years I have had numerous discussions, with … Continue reading
Physiotherapy: Improving quality of life for palliative care patients
Cipla Palliative Care and Training Centre in Pune, in the state of Maharashtra in India, has provided free inpatient and home care for cancer patients and their families since 1997. Dr Mugdha Vaidya, the physiotherapist at Cipla, describes one of … Continue reading
