Notes on Symptom Control in Hospice & Palliative Care |
Contents
Principles of Symptom Control | 1 |
Adjustment Reactions | 7 |
Alzheimers Disease | 14 |
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advanced disease analgesic anti-emetic anxiety avoid bladder bleeding bone pain bowel bronchus Candidiasis carcinoma carers catheter cause Celiac plexus cell chemotherapy chlorpromazine colon colostomy communication compression constipation continuous subcutaneous infusion cope cough damage day hospice death dexamethasone diarrhea diazepam discussion distressing diuretics doctor dose of morphine drowsiness drugs dying dysphagia dyspnea edema effective emotional family members fear fecal feces feel fistula fluid grief haloperidol high dose steroids Hypercalcemia ill patients important in-patient increase infection laser laxatives liver lung Lymphedema malignant Management options metastases morphine mouth nausea nerve block nerve pain nodes normal NSAIDs nurses obstruction occasionally occur opioid oral patient and family pelvic person pleural pleural effusion plexus pressure problems prognosis radiotherapy rarely rectal recurrence reduce relaxation relief resection response scopolamine sedation skin sometimes spinal cord steroids surgery symptom control talk terminally ill therapy tion treatment tumor urinary usually vomiting weeks