[Pediatric palliative care].

Based on the definition by the WHO from 1998, palliative care for children is the active, total care of the childs body, mind and spirit, and involves giving care to the family. It begins when the illness is diagnosed and continues regardless of whether a child receives treatment directed at the disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of pediatric palliative care was adopted by IMPaCCT (International Meeting for Palliative Care in Children, Trento) and became the key point of document, which defines and determines standards for care of children with life-limiting and life-threatening disease and recommends that these standards should be implemented in all European countries. Since 2015, the development of child palliative care in the Czech Republic is systematically promoted by the task force on palliative care for children of the Czech Society of Palliative Medicine.Key words: pediatric palliative care, life-limited disease, life-threatening disease, standards, family, complex care.