| Experience over a decade and a half in dealing with the patients needing End of Life Care and consequent to our understanding patients’ needs in great depth and constant interaction over a wide area problems encountered by them, the following Publications were contributed by this organization: |
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| Pain is a brilliant biological creation of the Almighty. However chronic pain needs not necessarily to be experienced. |
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Medical culture often equates death with failure; the other way around in Palliative care, we attend failures of curative treatment.
A single-minded focus on cure compounded by society’s ambivalence towards death and dying has resulted in favour of treatment-oriented approaches regardless whether they improve patients’ quality of life.
When the disease, in particular cancer, reaches an irreversible stage, palliative care should take precedence over “cure at all costs” type of medical approach. |
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| Grief is uniquely experienced by different individuals based on their interpersonal relationships when a patient passes away. It cannot be measured or adequately expressed in words; however the emotion of grief may fade away with time or can be mitigated using conscious efforts. The efforts should be deliberate. |
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Pain management in cancer aims at administration of least dosage of drugs coupled with appropriate adjuvant medicines acting as catalysts in controlling the pain. What a cancer patient needs is quality of life with pain adequately controlled.
We have no right to sedate the patient disabling him to neither express the pain nor forbid him to communicate with his dear ones to give out his thoughts or last wishes of life. |
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There are many undefined areas distinguishing active form of therapy from palliative care. Critical Care in cancer palliation is a new emerging concept, which is different from Critical Care in traditional hospitals providing active form of therapy.
The emerging concept of Critical Care in cancer palliation includes minor procedures which relieve the painful symptoms and makes the patient comfortable so that he/ she breathe easily, eat/ maintain nutrition and hydration of body, pass stools and urine without difficulty/discomfort and sleep in comfort. The aim of any such concept of management is to ensure patients comfort. |
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