Non-Oncological Palliative Care and Special Populations

Palliative Care · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

A detailed scientific, pathophysiological and clinical analysis of the palliative management of patients with advanced chronic non-oncological pathologies. This technical compendium provides prognostic stratification tools, detailed guidelines for the control of refractory symptoms, complex bioethical analyzes in decision-making at the end of life, and specific therapeutic protocols for populations…

What it covers

1. Definition, Epidemiology and Early Integration Models
2. Advanced Identification and Prognosis Tools
3. Complex Decision Making and Advance Planning
4. Bioethics at the End of Life: Limitation and Therapeutic Adequacy
5. Terminal Heart Failure (NYHA Class IV)
6. · Management of Dyspnea and Refractory Congestion
7. · Deactivation of High Technology Devices
8. Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease (ACKD) in Conservative Palliative Treatment
9. · Management of Specific Symptoms of Uremia
10. Advanced COPD and Terminal Interstitial Pulmonary Diseases
11. · Pathophysiology of Dyspnea and Role of Opioids
12. · Comfort Non-Invasive Ventilator Support (NIMV)
13. Terminal Chronic Liver Disease and Advanced Liver Failure
14. · Management of Refractory Hepatic Encephalopathy
15. · Palliative Evacuative Paracentesis in Tension Ascites
16. Advanced Dementia (Alzheimer's, Frontotemporal and Vascular)
17. · Oropharyngeal Dysphagia and Artificial Nutrition
18. · Psychomotor Agitation and Sundowning Syndrome
19. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS): Bulbar Palsy and Ventilatory Support
20. · Preservation of Communication and Sialorrhea
21. · Compassionate Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation
22. Advanced Parkinson's Disease and Multisystem Atrophies
23. · Pathophysiology of Dysautonomia and Parkinson's Psychosis
24. Multiple Sclerosis and Devastating Ischemic/Hemorrhagic Stroke
25. · Management of Painful Spasticity
26. · Acute Devastating Stroke and End of Life Protocol
27. Pediatric Palliative Care (PPC)
28. · ACT/RCPCH Clinical Group Classification
29. The Pluripathological Geriatric Patient and Extreme Frailty
30. · Fried's Fragility Criteria
31. · Advanced Deprescription and STOPP/START Criteria
32. Palliative Care in Patients with Advanced HIV/AIDS
33. · Manifestations and Symptomatic Management
34. Palliatives in Serious Psychiatric Patients and People in Destitute Situations
35. · Clinical and Ethical Challenges
36. Refractory Non-Oncological Chronic Pain
37. · Opioid Rotation: Fundamentals and Calculation of Equivalent Doses
38. · Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia (OIH)
39. Refractory Dyspnea: Signaling Pathways, Receptors and Pharmacological Management
40. · Mechanisms of the Sensation of Dyspnea
41. · Combined Pharmacological Treatment
42. Neuropsychiatric Symptoms: Delirium and Terminal Agitation
43. · Physiopathological Classification
44. · Pharmacological Treatment of Acute Delirium
45. Digestive Symptoms: Refractory Nausea, Intestinal Obstruction and Cachexia
46. · Pathophysiology of Nausea and Vomiting
47. · Management of Functional Intestinal Obstruction
48. · Terminal Cachexia-Anorexia Syndrome
49. Physiological Diagnosis of the Last Days Situation (SUD)
50. · Physiological Signs of Imminent Death
51. Palliative Sedation vs. Euthanasia: Clinical, Ethical and Legal Aspects
52. Pharmacological Protocols for Palliative Sedation
53. The Premortem Rales
54. · Pathophysiology and Rigorous Clinical Approach
55. Approach to Non-Oncological Palliative Emergencies
56. The Subcutaneous Route and Hypodermoclysis in Palliative Care
57. · Physiology of the Subcutaneous Route
58. · Insertion Technique and Sites of Choice
59. · Hypodermoclysis (Subcutaneous Hydration)
60. Integrated Decisional Algorithm for Non-Oncological Palliative Care