Alleviating Pain and Suffering in Children Receiving Palliative Care

Presenters:

Kimberly Widger RN, MN, CHPCN(c), University of Toronto
Maria Rugg RN, MN, CHPCN(c), Hospital For Sick Children
Dr. Maru Barrera PhD. C. Psych, Hospital For Sick Children

Synopsis:

The prevention and alleviation of pain in children receiving palliative care is of utmost importance to limit the suffering of seriously-ill children and their families. Furthermore, children with life-limiting or life-threatening illness and their families may experience significant psychosocial or spiritual suffering and strategies to recognize and alleviate this suffering are warranted. Ideally, palliative care should begin with the diagnosis of a life-limiting or life-threatening illness and continue throughout end-of-life and into bereavement. Coordination and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams is needed to appropriately support these children and families and overcome the unique challenges faced by healthcare professionals who care for them.

In response to the tremendous feedback from previous attendees, the CIHR Team in Children's Pain and its knowledge translation partner, CAPHC, continue their successful pediatric pain series with a webinar focused on alleviation of pain and suffering in palliative care. Join us and our distinguished speakers Dr. Maru Barrera, Maria Rugg, and Kimberley Widger as we explore: pharmacologic, physiologic and psychologic pain management strategies; psychosocial coping strategies; and multi-disciplinary decision-making in palliative care.

[robertgreen]

Thank you for this lecture, as a helper i wish there was u-tube web site specifically for health.

[robertgreen]

A proffessional perspective that can help families in the moral dilemas and understanding

of pallative care. It defines within a proffessional perspecive and is essential for the lay person.

Again i do feel there should be a U-tube eqivalent of NHS utube. Especially in and for

pallative care issues, in the ideal of symptom management and quality of life, rather than the

cure, in lay terms the biomedical with the soical model....

[robertgreen]

The psychologist's contribution was essential in that it can help nurses doctors work to a

psycho social communication with the biomedicine. In the way of is nursing art or science...

Communication is one of the most ambiguous dilemas in health work...

[robertgreen]

"We go on living until we die" this is the core of pallative care, a mention of Rodger C work

would be useful here for the proffessional in the maze of biomedicine...

[robertgreen]

Maybe the moral dilema would help here. In what Bauchamp and Childress define, for

example.