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Scottish Palliative Care Guideleines
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Scottish Palliative Care Guideleines
  • Pain
    • People with substance use disorder
    • Neuropathic pain
    • Pain assessment
    • Pain assessment - cognitive impairment
    • Pain management
    • Pain medicines / analgesics
  • Symptom management
    • Alternatives to regular medication normally given via a syringe pump or subcutaneous route when this is not available
    • Anorexia/cachexia
    • Bowel obstruction
    • Breathlessness
    • Constipation
    • Cough
    • Delirium
    • Depression
    • Diarrhoea
    • Hiccups
    • Hypercalcaemia
    • Lymphoedema
    • Mouth care
    • Nausea and vomiting
    • Pregnancy and breastfeeding
    • Pruritis
    • Seizures
    • Sweating
    • Weakness/fatigue
  • Palliative emergencies
    • Acute convulsive seizures
    • Allergic reaction to opioid
    • Bleeding
    • Catastrophic bleeding (haemoptysis, haematemesis, carotid artery erosion)
    • Haematemesis
    • Haemoptysis
    • Hypercalcaemia
    • Malignant spinal cord compression
    • Raised intracranial pressure (ICP)
    • Seizures
    • Stridor
    • Superior vena cava obstruction
    • Terminal agitation (also known as terminal restlessness or terminal delirium)
  • Medicines information
    • Choosing and changing opioids / opiates (converting/switching)
    • Alfentanil
    • Buccal midazolam
    • Buprenorphine patches
    • Clonazepam
    • Dexamethasone
    • Fentanyl buccal (Effentora)
    • Fentanyl nasal spray (PecFent)
    • Fentanyl patches
    • Fentanyl sublingual (Abstral)
    • Hydromorphone
    • Ketamine
    • Levetiracetam (subcutaneous infusion)
    • Levomepromazine
    • Lidocaine plaster
    • Methadone
    • Methylnaltrexone
    • Midazolam in palliative care
    • Morphine
    • Naloxone
    • Octreotide
    • Oxycodone
    • Phenobarbital (phenobarbitone)
    • Pregnancy and breastfeeding
  • Anticipatory prescribing
  • Syringe pump / driver guidelines
    • Syringe pump /driver guideline
    • Syringe pump / driver compatibles
    • Syringe pump /driver practice points
    • SOP template for using a syringe pump / driver in palliative care
    • Syringe pump /driver patient information
    • References & resources
    • Appendices
  • Last days of life
    • Care in the last days of life
    • Care of people with diabetes in the last days of life
    • End stage liver disease
    • Mouth care
    • Rapid transfer home in the last days of life
    • Renal disease in the last days of life
    • Severe uncontrolled distress
    • Subcutaneous fluids
  • Out of hours handover
  • Health and social care resources
    • Accessing the Palliative Care Formulary - video and guide
    • Compatibility and stability tables for subcutaneous infusion
    • Good practice guides
    • Palliative Care bulletins
    • Useful links for health and social care staff
  • Patient information leaflets
    • Alfentanil 5 mg/5 ml sublingual spray - patient information leaflet
    • Atropine sulfate 1% w/v eye drops used in the mouth for excess saliva - patient information leaflet
    • Buccal midazolam for seizures - patient information leaflet
    • Hyoscine Hydrobromide (Scopoderm) patient information leaflet
    • Ipratropium bromide for excess saliva - patient information leaflet
    • Ketamine for nerve pain - patient information leaflet
    • Levomepromazine for nausea, vomiting, agitation, delirium - patient information leaflet
    • Lorazepam under the tongue - patient information leaflet
    • Morphine (Zomorph®) taken via enteral feeding tubes - patient information leaflet
    • Olanzapine to treat nausea and vomiting - patient information leaflet
    • Rectal diazepam for seizures - patient information leaflet
    • Risperidone orodispersible tablets to treat agitation and delirium - patient information leaflet
    • Syringe pump information - patient information leaflet
    • Glycopyrronium to reduce saliva production
    • Opioids for breathlessness
  • About this toolkit
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    • Background
    • Methodology
    • Pharmacological considerations
    • Patient and family focus
    • Steering group membership
    • Guideline schedule
    • Accessibility
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Pain medicines / analgesics Alfentanil Buprenorphine patches Clonazepam Dexamethasone Fentanyl buccal (Effentora) Fentanyl nasal spray (PecFent) Fentanyl patches Fentanyl sublingual (Abstral) Hydromorphone Ketamine Lidocaine plaster Methadone Naloxone Oxycodone

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