E-raamat: Clinical Manual of Palliative Care for Any Setting: Toward Universal Contextually-Adapted Access

"This manual is an easy-to-use clinical guide for providing high-quality, contextually-adapted palliative care in low- and middle-income settings. Palliative care is a medically and morally imperative response to any acute or chronic suffering associatedwith serious illness, serious injury, or severe emotional trauma, that is not adequately relieved in any setting. Because the most common and severe types of suffering often vary by location and over time, and because the meaning of optimum care often varies by culture, the character of palliative care and the populations it serves also may need vary. The manual specifically enables practicing clinicians at all levels of health care systems to assess and relieve physical, psychological, social and spiritual suffering using medicines, equipment, and resources that are safe, effective, inexpensive, and widely available in most low- and middle-income countries. It also guides integration of palliative care into health care systems and adaptation of palliative care to local and individual needs and meaningful cultural practices"-- Provided by publisher.

Clinical Manual of Palliative Care for Any Setting is an easy-to-use manual aimed at helping medical doctors, clinical officers, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare professionals to provide high-quality palliative care in any setting, including where healthcare resources are limited.

Palliative care is a medically and morally imperative response to any suffering - physical, psychological, social or spiritual, chronic or acute - that is associated with serious illness, serious injury, or severe emotional trauma, and that is not promptly relieved by treatment of underlying conditions.

Clinical Manual of Palliative Care for Any Setting provides an easy-to-use manual and clinical guide aimed at helping medical doctors, clinical officers, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare professionals to provide high-quality and contextually-adapted palliative care in any setting. This is particularly important for contexts where healthcare resources are limited.

The manual is designed to enable practicing clinicians at all levels of health care systems to integrate basic palliative care with illness treatment and to integrate state-of-the-art symptom relief and psycho-social support with local cultural values. To maximize its usefulness in resource-limited settings, where palliative care is least accessible and suffering most pervasive, its guidance includes only medicines, equipment, and resources that are safe, effective, inexpensive, and widely available in most low- and middle-income countries. It also guides integration of palliative care into health care systems. The manual is a product of the Program in Global Palliative Care at Harvard Medical School and its network of dedicated partners working in low- and middle-income settings toward universal access to palliative care.