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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