palliative care part 1 Flashcards
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Principles of PC
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-Non-abandonment
-Team-approach
-Continuum of care
- Bereavement support
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Non-abandonment
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3
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Team-approach
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Continuum of care
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Bereavement support
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6
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what does good palliative care look like(NB slide)
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Life-limiting conditions
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- A condition that limits the activities of daily living.
- There is no cure, will most likely result in a shortened life span.
- e.g: chronic renal failure, cystic fibrosis, HIV and metastic cancer
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Life-threatening illness
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- A condition where there is a more immediate like hood of death
- Curative treatment is feasible but may fail
- E.g: severe meningitis, PE,Early cancer
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Terminal illness
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- An irreversible life-limiting or life-threatning illness
- There is no cure, will result in a rapid inevitable decline in function until death
- e.g
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When is the right ime to introduce PC
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- disease course based
- Function based
- Treatment effect based
11
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Time-based vs function-based prognostication
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12
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Three types of wellbeing trajectories
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- 2.Endstage chronic illnesss trajectory
3.fraility/Dementia
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End stage chronic illness trajectory
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15
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Fraility demetia
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