Palliative care
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Facilitating anticipatory prescribing in end-of-life care Subscription
Anticipatory prescribing enables patients in the last days and weeks of their lives to have their symptoms managed at home. Pharmacists are ideally positioned to provide practical support and advice to other healthcare professionals on the prescribing and administration of anticipatory medicines and to facilitate timely supply.
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Communicating with palliative care patients nearing the end of life, their families and carers Subscription
Pharmacists are becoming increasingly involved in palliative care and can be a source of important information and support for patients at the end of life. Health professionals caring for patients with advanced illness should develop skills for communicating with patients, and their families and carers.
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New priorities for palliative care Subscription
The Liverpool Care Pathway has been replaced by five new principles for palliative care, which have a significant impact on pharmacy practice.
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Nausea and vomiting in palliative care Subscription
Sonia Chand discusses the management of nausea and vomiting in advanced cancer
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Worsening pain in palliative care Subscription
A 78-year-old man with advanced lung cancer is receiving palliative care but his abdominal pain has progressively worsened.
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Dealing with the dying patient - treatment of terminal restlessness and agitation
Terminal agitation or restlessness can be defined as agitated delirium with cognitive impairment. It tends to occur frequently at the end stage of cancer.
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Question from practice: Current treatment options for fibromyalgia Subscription
A. Fibromyalgia is a condition characterised by chronic, widespread pain, which is often severe, and increased pain sensitivity. Patients often report a range of symptoms, usually including poor quality unrefreshing sleep and cognitive disturbances. Fibromyalgia has previously been difficult to diagnose, with patients often presenting ...
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Questions to ask with morphine supply Subscription
You are presented with a prescription for Zomorph SR Capsules 100mg bd (your records tell you that previously the patient has been on a lower dose) and morphine sulphate solution 10mg/5ml, to be used when needed. What points need to be considered?
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Palliative care: principles and pharmacy roles Subscription
Palliative care is an approach to managing the physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems experienced by people who are dying. The care provided during the final few days, weeks or months of life is broadly referred to as end-of-life care.
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Palliative care: end-of-life medicines management Subscription
Caring for patients who are at the end of life requires a holistic approach. The selection and monitoring of medicines to control common end-of-life symptoms are areas where pharmacists
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