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Guide to Pain Management in Low-Resource Settings Chapter 8 Principles of Palliative Care Lukas Radbruch and Julia Downing What is palliative care? 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. This widely accepted definition of the World Health Organization from 2002 includes some changes compared to an older WHO definition from 1990. The definition explains and reinforces the holistic approach, which not only covers the physical symptoms, but extends to other dimensions and aims of care for patients as they suffers now with their disease, with their own personal story, and in their actual setting and social context. The WHO provides a similar definition for palliative care for children—the active total care of the child’s body, mind, and spirit—and also involves giving support to the family. It begins when illness is diagnosed, and continues regardless of whether or not a child receives treatment directed at the disease. Health providers must evaluate and alleviate a child’s physical, psychological, and social distress. Effective children’s palliative care requires a broad multidisciplinary approach that includes the family and makes use of available community ...
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