Symptoms requiring palliative care?
- Pain
- Breathlessness
- Secretions in the Mouth/Nose
- Anxiety/Depression
- Delirium
- Fatigue
- Loss of Appetite
- Inability to Swallow Food
- Acute Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Dehydration
- Acute Infections
- Surgical Emergencies eg Obstructions (Airway, GI Billiary, Urinary Tract) Bleeding, Perforations, Effusions, Pathological Fractures, Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
Emergencies requiring palliative care
- Choking * Hypoglycaemia * Medicinal opioid overdose
- Superior vena cave obstruction * Spinal Cord Compression
- Hypercalcemia * Haemorrhage * Acute Severe Pain
- Over Whelming Distress * Surgical and Neurological Emergencies * Pathological Fractures * Chemo Extravasation * Cord Compression.