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Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual.
Each patient is unique in the symptoms they experience during life-theatening illness. However common symptoms include:
Any life-threating illness may cause physical, psychosocial, and spiritual distress to a patient.
The aim of palliative care is to provide:
An accurate and holistic assessment of a person’s needs is necessary to provide good quality care to patients.
Multidisciplinary specialist services are required to provide this assessment, advice and care for patients in their preferred place of care.
Palliative Care Treatment
The aim of palliative care is to provide:
For symptom control the aim should be to use a few medications as possible. The type of medication used is dictated by the severity or mechanism causing the symptom.
Medicinal cannabis products may be considered when first line therapies have not achieved adequate symptomatic relief.
