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Applying palliative care principles and practice to emergency medicine.
Emergency Medicine Australasia : EMA 2015 December
Only recently has the potential (unmet) palliative care (PC) workload in the ED been recognised. While confident in PC symptom management, we underestimate the role of a palliative approach in non-cancer diagnoses and seek education in areas such as individual patient care pathways, ethical and legal issues and difficult conversations at the end of life. PC is best introduced early for a range of life-limiting cancer and non-cancer diagnoses. Allowing patients time to tell their story with active listening, acknowledgement of suffering and a compassionate presence leads to treatment 'success' that is not defined by cure. This patient-centred, rather than disease-centred approach, is the essence of PC, and one that is easily incorporated into emergency practice. PC and disease-specific treatments can comfortably coexist, and with meticulous symptom management, may actually prolong life. PC is everyone's business, and emergency medicine needs to be part of it.
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