Palliative care
Palliative care
- Deals with dying
- Aspects dealt with: social, psychological, medical
Principles
- Die with dignity
- Patient should be moved to a quiet side room
- Family may wish to be present
- Religious wishes respected
- Die without suffering
- Investigations / blood tests should be cancelled
- Potentially degrading objects (such as nasogastric tubes) should be removed
- Die with control of symptoms
- Anti-emetics
- Reduced secretions: hyoscine
- Treat constipation
