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Palliative Care
Pain in palliative care
Pharmacological management of pain in palliative care
Regular oral opioids for background pain in palliative care
Palliative Care
What is covered in the Palliative Care guidelines?
Overview of palliative care
Communicating with and supporting patients with palliative care needs
Advance care planning
Decision-making and ethical challenges in palliative care
Family support in palliative care
Support for carers in palliative care
Healthcare professional wellbeing in palliative care
Loss, grief and bereavement
Principles of symptom management in palliative care
Emergencies in palliative care
Principles of paediatric palliative care
Principles of palliative care for patients with common life-limiting illnesses
Multimorbidity and frailty in palliative care
Disorders of substance use in palliative care
Desire to die in palliative care
Pain in palliative care
Assessing pain in palliative care
Principles of managing pain in palliative care
Nonpharmacological management of pain in palliative care
Pharmacological management of pain in palliative care
Principles of pharmacological management of pain in palliative care
Paracetamol for pain in palliative care
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for pain in palliative care
Role of opioids for pain in palliative care
Starting an opioid for pain in palliative care
Choice of opioid for pain in palliative care
As-required oral opioids for intermittent pain in patients with palliative care needs who do not already take a regular opioid
Regular oral opioids for background pain in palliative care
Approach to using a regular oral opioid for background pain in palliative care
Modified-release oral opioid regimens for background pain in palliative care
Regular transdermal opioids for background pain in palliative care
As-required oral opioids for breakthrough pain in palliative care
Increasing the dose of regular opioid therapy in palliative care
Adjuvant analgesics for neuropathic pain in palliative care
Cannabinoids for pain in palliative care
Monitoring analgesic therapy in palliative care
References
Fatigue in palliative care
Respiratory problems in palliative care
Gastrointestinal problems in palliative care
Emotional, psychological and behavioural symptoms in palliative care
Delirium in palliative care
Sleep disturbance in palliative care
Neurological and neuromuscular problems in palliative care
Dermatological problems in palliative care
Genitourinary problems in palliative care
Haematological problems in palliative care
Hypercalcaemia associated with cancer
Hyponatraemia in palliative care
Catastrophic terminal events in palliative care
Care in the last days of life
After-death care
Medication management in palliative care
Opioid use in palliative care
Regular oral opioids for background pain in palliative care
Approach to using a regular oral opioid for background pain in palliative care
Modified-release oral opioid regimens for background pain in palliative care
