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Palliative care for stroke patients: Experience at Pain and Palliative Care Society, Thrissur
Palliative care for stroke patients: Experience at Pain and Palliative Care Society, Thrissur – Dr. E. Divakaran, Thrissur Cerebrovascular accidents occur as an acute catastrophe suddenly changing the life course of an individual. Prevention, early diagnosis, and urgent initial management is important for reducing both the morbidity and mortality in these cases. Fora majority of the patients, the care will have to be continued into palliative care and physiotherapy, which…
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IAPC Academy Online Training Program: Series 5 – Lecture 9
IAPC Academy Lecture Series 5: Training in Palliative Care Research Lecture Number: 9 Lecture Date: 17th October, 2022 Topic: Quality improvement in Health Care Speaker: Dr Shirley Salins The IAPC Academy’s Online Lecture Series are delivered every Monday between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., via Zoom. Those interested to participate in the sessions, are requested to drop us an email at academyiapc@gmail.com along with your name, designation, affiliation, contact number and…
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IAPC Academy’s online Lecture Series 6
IAPC Academy’s online Lecture Series 6 “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” ― Albert Einstein The IAPC Academy’s online Lecture Series 6 is scheduled to commence on Monday, 31st October, 2022, and conclude on Monday 26th June, 2023. The Online Lecture Series 6 is designed to feature five sections, which aims to revise the fundamental concepts and advances in symptom control in palliative care,…
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IAPC Academy Online Training Program: Series 5 – Lecture 8
IAPC Academy Lecture Series 5: Training in Palliative Care Research Lecture Number: 8 Lecture Date: 10th October, 2022 Topic: Use of Reference Managers Speaker: Ms Vasumathi Sriganesh The IAPC Academy’s Online Lecture Series are delivered every Monday between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., via Zoom. Those interested to participate in the sessions, are requested to drop us an email at academyiapc@gmail.com along with your name, designation, affiliation, contact number and an…
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IAPC Academy Online Training Program: Series 5 – Lecture 7
IAPC Academy Lecture Series 5: Training in Palliative Care Research Lecture Number: 7 Lecture Date: 3rd October, 2022 Topic: Manuscript Writing Speaker: Dr Jenifer Jeba S The IAPC Academy’s Online Lecture Series are delivered every Monday between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., via Zoom. Those interested to participate in the sessions, are requested to drop us an email at academyiapc@gmail.com along with your name, designation, affiliation, contact number and an expression…
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IAPC Academy Online Training Program: Series 5 – Lecture 6
IAPC Academy Lecture Series 5: Training in Palliative Care Research Lecture Number: 6 Lecture Date: 26th September, 2022 Topic: Genomic Research in Palliative Medicine Speaker: Dr Mahadev Rao The IAPC Academy’s Online Lecture Series are delivered every Monday between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., via Zoom. Those interested to participate in the sessions, are requested to drop us an email at academyiapc@gmail.com along with your name, designation, affiliation, contact number and…
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‘Debunking 10 nutrition myths: current evidence and understanding
Debunking 10 nutrition myths: current evidence and understanding – Dr. Kahkasha, Deoghar India has been celebrating the National Nutrition Week for the past forty years now. This year’s theme is – ‘Celebrate a World of Flavours’. We chose to celebrate the observance this year by addressing some common nutritional myths associated with cancer care, with the available scientific evidence. 1. Myth: Medical assisted Nutrition (MAN) is a must for palliative…
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‘And the beat goes on’: Palliative Care in Cardiac Patients
‘And the beat goes on’: Palliative Care in Cardiac Patients – Dr. Divya Sai Vanumu, Hyderabad Globally, the World Heart day is celebrated on 29th September. The day is celebrated to spread awareness about cardiovascular diseases which causes nearly half of all the non-communicable diseases in the world. The World Heart Federation has themed this years celebration around ‘Use Heart for every heart’ to urge people to use one’s heart to…
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IAPC Academy Online Training Program: Series 5 – Lecture 5
IAPC Academy Lecture Series 5: Training in Palliative Care Research Lecture Number: 5 Lecture Date: 19th September, 2022 Topic: Research Design – Quantitative and Qualitative and Mixed Speaker: Dr Fiona Rawlinson The IAPC Academy’s Online Lecture Series are delivered every Monday between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., via Zoom. Those interested to participate in the sessions, are requested to drop us an email at academyiapc@gmail.com along with your name, designation, affiliation,…
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Shining light in a Tunnel: Suicide Prevention in Palliative Care
Shining light in a Tunnel: Suicide Prevention in Palliative Care – Ms. Michelle Normen, Bengaluru The World Health Organization and the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) every year on 10th September celebrates World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD). The aim of events all over the globe towards this cause is to sustain a universal commitment to focus attention on the prevention of suicide. WSPD’s 2022 theme was chosen as ‘Creating hope…
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Home Care for advanced Dementia: how Palliative Care can help
Home Care for advanced Dementia: how Palliative Care can help – Ms. Swapna Kishore, Bengaluru In India, most dementia care happens at home, including care during advanced stages. While most people think of dementia as ‘memory loss’, dementia is a progressive disorder and in the advanced stage, decline is severe mentally and physically. Usually by then, the person is frail, old, has multiple medical conditions, has swallowing problems, is incontinent,…
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World Patient Safety Day webinar organised on 17 September, 2022
Webinar on ‘World Patient Safety Day: A dialogue in palliative care patient safety’ Organised on Saturday, 17th September, 2022 The IAPC commemorated the World Patient Safety day by organising and successfully presenting a webinar on ‘World Patient Safety Day: A dialogue in palliative care patient safety’ on Saturday, 17th September, 2022. A stellar faculty delivered an interactive and a rich webinar kept our approx. 80 audiences riveted to their screens, despite us slightly overshooting…
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