iPall: Learn Palliative Care
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    • Symptom Management >
      • Pain >
        • Pain Assessment >
          • Universal Pain Assessment Tool
          • PAIN-AD (behavioral tool)
        • Opioid Conversion
      • ESAS-r Symptom Assessment
      • Respiratory Symptoms
      • GI symptoms
      • Delirium >
        • Delirium Assessment
      • Last Hours of Living
      • Interventional Palliative Care
      • Pediatric Palliative Care
    • Disease Management >
      • Geriatrics
      • Palliative Emergencies
      • Wound Care >
        • Wound Assessment
    • Prognostication
  • Psycho-social-spiritual
    • Emotional
    • Social
    • Spiritual
  • Practical
    • Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Team
    • Locations of Care
  • Ethical
    • Withholding, withdrawing interventions
  • Self-Care

Symptom management (Physical Domain)

The physical domain is largely the domain of medicine.  In medical and nursing school, we are taught about how the body works from the molecular to the physiologic and anatomical levels.
Understanding the framework of illness, of natural history of disease, of prognostication, of assessing and managing symptoms is core to the practice of palliative medicine, especially for nurses and physicians.

In this section, we address some of the core topics:
  • Pain
  • Non-pain symptoms
  • Caring for the imminently dying
  • Advance illness management
  • Woundcare
  • Pediatric Palliative Care
  • Surgical and interventional palliative care
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