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About Therapeutic Guidelines
Getting to know your drugs
Analgesic
Antibiotic
Cardiovascular
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Gastrointestinal
Fatigue: diagnostic approach in primary care
Neurology
Oral and Dental
Palliative Care
Contributors
Preface
Principles of palliative care
Emotional care of the provider of palliative care
Ethical issues in palliative care
Communicating with and supporting the patient in palliative care
Loss, grief and bereavement
Providing palliative care in the community
Pertinent practical points
Getting to know your palliative care drugs
Paediatric principles and practice
Principles of symptom control in palliative care
Palliative care emergencies
Intercurrent illnesses and palliative care
Pain
Introduction
Types of pain
Pathophysiology of pain
Classification of pain
Pain assessment
Principles of pain management
Pharmacological treatment of pain
Introduction
Opioids
Choosing an opioid
Combining opioids
Principles and practice in the use of opioids
Using opioids
Use of individual opioids
Changing from one opioid to another
Drugs for neuropathic pain
Pain associated with tumour-related oedema
Pain associated with skeletal muscle spasm
Pain associated with smooth muscle spasm
Bone metastases
Management of incident pain
Other treatments for pain
For the patient still in pain
Managing pain in patients with substance use disorders
Fatigue
Gastrointestinal symptoms
Respiratory symptoms
Neurological and neuromuscular symptoms
Psychiatric symptoms
Dermatological symptoms
Haematological problems
Genitourinary symptoms
Paraneoplastic syndromes
Life-limiting illnesses other than cancer
HIV/AIDS in palliative care patients
Terminal care
Drug administration (Appendix 10.1)
Patient assessment tools (Appendix 10.2)
Palliative care resources (Appendix 10.3)
List of tables, boxes and figures
Key references
Psychotropic
Respiratory
Rheumatology
Ulcer and wound management
Developmental Disability
Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding
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