IAPC ACADEMY Lecture Series 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 Session 4 Topic: Approach To A Patient With Cancer Pain Needing Interventions Date: July 20, 2020.Faculty: Dr. Sushma Bhatnagar. IAPC ACADEMY is an initiative…
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IAPC ACADEMY Lecture Series 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 Session 3 Topic: Approach To An Adult Patient Presenting With Opioid Toxicities Date: July 13, 2020.Faculty: Dr. Seema Mishra. IAPC ACADEMY is an initiative…
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IAPC ACADEMY Lecture Series 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 Session 2 Topic: Approach to prescribing strong opioids for pain management: Opioids pharmacotherapy Initiating strong opioids Titrating opioid dose and opioid rotation Date: July…
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IAPC ACADEMY Lecture Series on Mondays From 6:30 AM to 7:30 AM For registration, please send an email to academyiapc@gmail.com It is a proud beginning; the ‘IAPC ACADEMY’, an online training series mainly for MD students in Palliative Medicine and doctors practicing Palliative Medicine. This initiative by Indian Association of Palliative Care, has been started…
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“A good night’s sleep for patients without pain; Isn’t that we aspire for!” “It’s a sad fact that even after amendments of NDPS rules, opioid analgesics are not reaching to those who needs them the most. And this, is now exacerbated by the pandemic situation and lockdown enforced due to it.” – writes Dr. Anuja…
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Series Starts from 29th June 2020 Note (July 30, 2020): You can watch the video series Here Indian Association of Palliative Care launches a new initiative – IAPC Academy- an online training program with an aim to provide training to students doing MD in Palliative Medicine, by experts in the field. This series will start…
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To Tell or Not to Tell: Exploring the Preferences and Attitudes of Patients and Family Caregivers on Disclosure of a Cancer-Related Diagnosis and Prognosis Cancer-related communication is a complex process and not just the mere transfer of information. It is important to understand the preferences of patients and family caregivers about disclosure of diagnosis and…
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Guidelines for End of Life Care, AIIMS, New Delhi A “Good death” is the right of every dying patient. In the UK, a world-wide survey was done for Quality of Death in 2015 and India was ranked 67th amongst 80 countries. With this background, this document for implementation of “Guidelines for End of Life Care,…
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Dr. Roop Gurshani explains the relevance of the position paper by the BioEthics Unit of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) orders and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), published in the current issue of the Indian Journal of Medical Research The ICMR has confirmed that CPR is not a default…
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What is a Living Will? It is important for people to plan their future healthcare, especially at a time when they may no longer be able to make decisions or communicate these decisons. The “Living Will” will provide people the opportunity to think about, talk about and write down their wishes, preferences, priorities and refusals.…
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