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IAPC Academy Online Training Program: Series 3 – Lecture 5
IAPC ACADEMY Lecture Series 3 on Mondays Every Monday from 6:30 AM to 7:30 AM. For registration, please send an email to academyiapc@gmail.com Schedule of the program is available for download Here Series 3 – Lecture 5 Topic: Haematological Emergencies: Blast Crisis, Hyperleukocytosis, Tumour Lysis Syndrome, Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome & Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Date: August 23, 2021.Faculty: Dr. Anupama Borkar More Online Training Program videos IAPC ACADEMY is…
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IAPC’s Special Feature on Palliative Care for the LGBTI Community
IAPC’s Special Feature on Palliative Care for the LGBTI Community 1. An overview of care for the LGBTI Community: Role of Palliative Care Dr. Rajni Herman, New Delhi 2. Hidden Lives also Matter: A Nurse’s perspective Ms. Anu Savio Thelly, Puducherry 3. Challenges in caring for the LGBTI Community: A Counsellor’s Perspective Ms. Poornima Prakash, Bengaluru, Karnataka
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IAPC’s Special Feature on Geriatric Palliative Care
IAPC’s Special Feature on Geriatric Palliative Care 1. A current update on Geriatric Palliative Care in India Dr. Prince John, Pune, Maharashtra 2. Geriatrics and Palliative Care Bonhomie: A Geriatrician’s perspective Dr. Dominic Benjamin, Bengaluru, Karnataka 3. Palliative Care needs of older persons at home (including End-of-Life Care) Dr. Stanley C Macaden, Bengaluru, Karnataka 4. Transition: Learning, Unlearning and Relearning; A personal experience in caring for the elderly Dr. Rajashree…
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Lung Cancer and Palliative Care
Lung Cancer and Palliative Care – Dr. Prabhat S. Malik, New Delhi Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. It is considered as the ‘disease of smokers’; however lung cancer in non-smokers is being recognized as an increasingly prominent public health issue in recent times. Though screening with low dose CT scan is recommended in high-risk population, it’s applicability in Indian contexts is questionable in view…
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Palliative Care needs of older persons at home
Palliative Care needs of older persons at home (including End-of-Life Care) – Dr. Stanley C Macaden, Bengaluru Let’s begin with a short case summary: Mr. Raju (name changed), was 80 and a known case of Diabetes, Hypertension and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). He had good family support and was under the care of a Geriatrician for the past several years. His progressive weakness and his three admissions within a…
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Elderly Care: Nursing perspective
Elderly Care: Nursing perspective – Mr. Sudip Rudra Paul, Pune Geriatric Palliative Care (GPC) is a field of inter-specialty collaboration unifying competences from geriatric medicine and palliative care to respond to the socio-demographic changes and challenges of older adults with severe and life-limiting conditions. Geriatric Palliative Care can be provided when there are indications for the need for palliative care in older adults due to complexities in ageing, and when…
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I may be slow, but I am not dumb!
I may be slow, but I am not dumb! Communicating with the Elderly – Dr. Biju Raghavan, Ernakulam “I may be slow, but I’m not dumb”, said Mrs. Sharada (name changed), as she admonished her grandchildren, who were enjoying some good natured amusement at her expense. Mrs. Sharada nevertheless had a smile on her face because she realises that it was becoming increasingly rare for her, to have her children…
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World Humanitarian Day 2021
World Humanitarian Day 2021: Humanitarian workers who save lives and care for the dying – Ms. Rachel Coghlan, Melbourne, Australia *This article contains excerpts from a Correspondence recently published in The Lancet by Rachel Coghlan for World Humanitarian Day 2021. World Humanitarian Day is celebrated every year on August 19. It is a day in which we honour humanitarian workers who save lives and provide protection to people most in…
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Challenges in caring for the LGBTI Community
Challenges in caring for the LGBTI Community: A Counsellor’s Perspective – Ms. Poornima Prakash, Bengaluru Providing palliative care to patients of the LGBTI community comes with its own sets of challenges due to their unique needs and circumstances. This article tries to accentuate a few of those challenges I faced while taking a particular case into consideration. The patient was admitted to the hospice with CA Buccal Muccosa and was…
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Register for online workshop on Psychosocial care in chronic illnesses!
Registrations open for the IAPC’s online workshop on Psychosocial care in chronic illness (non oncology)! The IAPC’s new batch for the online workshop on the Psychosocial Aspects of providing care to patients with Non-Oncological Conditions in a Palliative Care setting will begin on Saturday, 9th October, 2021, on the occasion of the World Hospice and Palliative Care Day. The workshop will be held virtually during the weekends and is aimed…
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IAPC Academy Online Training Program: Series 3 – Lecture 4
IAPC ACADEMY Lecture Series 3 on Mondays Every Monday from 6:30 AM to 7:30 AM. For registration, please send an email to academyiapc@gmail.com Schedule of the program is available for download Here Series 3 – Lecture 4 Topic: Endocrine Emergencies: Adrenal Emergencies, Thyroid Emergencies & Carcinoid Crisis Date: August 16, 2021.Faculty: Dr. Ajisha P. A. More Online Training Program videos IAPC ACADEMY is an initiative by Indian Association of Palliative…
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Hidden Lives also Matter
Experiences in working with the LGBTI community: A Nurse’s perspective – Ms. Anu Savio Thelly, Puducherry It was in 2016, that I met my best friend, Dr. Mx K. Sheethal (Mx – Transgender) who played an instrumental role in setting up a gender clinic for the LGBTI community in our medical college, the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry. I reached out to her, to solicit her guidance…
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