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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
    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)
       Body chart (Figure 10.3)
       Categorical scale (Figure 10.4)
       Numerical pain scale (0 to 5) (Figure 10.5)
       Numerical pain scale (0 to 10) (Figure 10.6)
       Visual analogue pain scale (Figure 10.7)
       Faces pain scale (Figure 10.8)
       Thermometer pain scale (Figure 10.9)
       Ladder pain scale (Figure 10.10)
       Australia-modified Karnofsky performance status scale (Box 10.22)
       Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group scale (ECOG) (Box 10.23)
       Palliative care phases (Box 10.24)
    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