Please share an interesting fact about palliative care.

Pain: Myth: pain management procedures are not necessary because they waste health care dollars.

Palliative: Palliative care should include pain management procedures to relieve pain.

Palliative: Palliative care means treatment without cure. It is just meant to make you feel better.

Palliative: Palliative care is not only for cancer patients. It i also good for patients with CHF and copd.

People: People think the goal is to die. The goal is really to live all the days you have left happily.

Mistrust: Mistrust (and fear) that costly treatment will be withheld, may lead patients to pursue aggressive care.

Palliative: Palliative care is not 'giving up' on the patient.

This: This is not always hospice care. The goal is to help with goals of treatment and maximize comfort.

Palliative: Palliative care is about symptoms and not always hospice.

Utilize: Utilize a hospice care system for best palliative care. The team approach is the most effective.

Patients: Patients on hospice can still see specialists and all their usual doctors.

"Do: "do not resuscitate" does not mean do not treat. Reasonable efforts to maintain function are met.

Palliative: Palliative care is not giving up or comfort care, but a focus more on quality of life than time.

Care: Care involves a team to include doctor / nurse / social worker / chaplin / staff to take care of pt.

Temporary: Temporary care generally requires follow-up and more involved and definitive care.

Palliative: Palliative care can still include cancer treatment if it is intended to reduce pain or symptoms.

Even: Even though a person seems to be unconscious, they may be in pain and should be treated.

Just: Just like hospice... Not! palliative care can include treatment to cure disease & prolong life.

Many: Many patients in palliative care do recover and live several more years and may receive it again.

RICE:: Rice: rest, ice, compression and elevation to help control pain in a recent injury.

Offer early: It is often not discussed early enough to let patient and family know about what resources exist.

The: Myth: palliative care means giving up. Fact: quality of life can be improved with palliative care.

Medicare: Medicare will approve inpatient or outpatient hospice care if the patient has a terminal illness.

Palliative: Palliative care does not mean that the doctors have "given up". It means comfort measures.

Palliative: Palliative care does not mean "cure", and does not always take away all of your symptoms.

PC: Palliative care is for any patient with a chronic problem who can benefit from a team approach.

Myth:: It's a myth that: you should wait before you discuss your wishes. No, start now. Discuss five wishes.

Spouses: Spouses should talk about this on their honeymoon - don't wait until too late to decide end of life.

Myth:: It's a myth that: palliative care does not alleviate suffering.

Respect: Respect for the patient is the primary goal.

There: There are palliative care quality practice indicators, and guidelines, just like in other fields.

Many: Palliative care is not hospice. Hospice is to help die peacefully. Pc to improve life quality.

Palliative: Palliative care is the medical specialty focused on relieving the pain of serious illness.

Palliative: Palliative care is proven to increase patient satisfaction.

Palliative: Palliative comes from the latin word "palliare" meaning " to cloak". When undergoing palliative care, see yourself as being cloaked by your loving caregivers.

Anything: Anything goes, what ever makes the patient happy, no rules. Obviously within reason.

Remember,: Remember, palliative is for symptom management. It is not necessary related to end of life care.

Palliative: Palliative is for chronic symptom management. Hospice is expected death/mortality in <= 6 months.

Palliative: Palliative care does not occur at end of life alone. It should be considered at diagnosis for some.

It: It beats dying in pain. No one gets a gold medal for enduring pain when dying.

Palliative: Palliative care isn't withdrawing care & is not to facilitate death; just a change in goals.

Palliative: Palliative care is not just for the terminally ill patient!

Ignore: It is not "giving up" and not "killing the patient". It allows for a more peaceful passing for him.

Ignore: It is not aimed a treating the disease or process. It is aimed at symptom control.

Ignore: Palliative care does not mean giving up. It's active treatment focused on making you feel good!

Ignore: Palliative care treats the family and friends in addition to the "patient".

Ignore: Palliative care is often misused. Se sure hospice care is not a better alternative at end of life.

Ignore: Pain is one of the top quality of life issues for cancer patients; be open with your oncologist.

Ignore: Being in palliative care does not mean no care. This fear often deters families from palliative care.

Ignore: Some patients may forgo narcotics if they feel it makes them too constipated.

Ignore: Most symptoms can be managed by palliative care doctors.

Ignore: Palliative Care does not = hospice. It is an area of medicine focused on symptom control.

Ignore: COX-2 inhibitors are preferred for pain management to reduce the incidence of GI problems.

Ignore: The goal of therapy is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.

Ignore: Palliative Chemotherapy Worsens Quality of Life at End of Life.

Ignore: Specialized symptom oriented care in life limiting medical conditions, not otherwise treatable.

Ignore: Palliative care has been shown to improve people's quality of life and survival in cancer.