Principles of palliative care

Principles of palliative care

• Principles of palliative care
  • The World health Organization amended the definitive of palliative care for children to include the following:
    • Palliative care for children is the active total care of the child’s body, mind, and spirit and 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 care providers must evaluate and alleviate the child’s physical, psychologic, and social distress.
    • Effective palliative care requires a broad multidisciplinary approach that includes the family and makes use of available community resources; it can be successfully implemented even if resources are limited.
    • It can be provided in tertiary care facilities, in community health centers, and even in children’s homes.
  • Pain and symptom management
• Decision-making at end of life
  • Ethical considerations
  • Physicians, health care team
  • Parents
  • The dying child
    • Children’s understanding of and reactions to death