Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines

• About the Guidelines
  • Patient and Family Focus
  • Background
  • Methodology
  • Pharmacological Considerations
  • Decimal Points
  • Conventions on Drug Names
  • Liquid Medicines
  • Contributors
• Pain
  • Pain Assessment
  • Pain Assessment - Cognitive Impairment
  • Pain Management
  • Neuropathic Pain
  • Choosing and Changing Opioids
  • Anticipatory Prescribing
  • Alfentanil
  • Fentanyl Patches
  • Fentanyl Buccal (Effentora)
  • Fentanyl Nasal Spray (Pecfent)
  • Fentanyl Sublingual (Abstral)
  • Lidocaine
  • Naloxone
  • Methadone
  • Oxycodone
• Symptom Control
  • Anticipatory Prescribing
  • Anorexia/Cachexia
  • Bowel Obstruction
  • Breathlessness
  • Constipation
  • Cough
  • Delirium
  • Depression
  • Diarrhoea
  • Seizures
  • Hiccups
  • Hypercalcaemia
  • Mouth Care
  • Nausea and Vomiting
  • Out Of Hours Handover
  • Pruritis
  • Sweating
  • Weakness / Fatigue
• Palliative Emergencies
  • Bleeding
  • Hypercalcaemia
  • Seizures
  • Malignant Spinal Cord Compression
  • Superior Vena Cava Obstruction
• End of Life Care
  • Care in the Last Days of Life
  • Anticipatory Prescribing
  • Subcutaneous Fluids
  • Renal Disease in the last days of life
  • Severe Uncontrolled Distress in the last days of life
  • Mouth Care
  • Syringe pumps
  • Out Of Hours Handover
  • Rapid Transfer Home
• Medicine Information
  • Alfentanil
  • Fentanyl Patches
  • Fentanyl Buccal (Effentora)
  • Fentanyl Nasal Spray (Pecfent)
  • Fentanyl Sublingual (Abstral)
  • Ketamine
  • Levomepromazine
  • Lidocaine
  • Midazolam
  • Methadone
  • Methylnaltrexone
  • Naloxone
  • Octreotide
  • Oxycodone
  • Phenobarbital
• Patient Information
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About the guidelines

• Patient and Family Focus
• Background
• Methodology
• Pharmacological Considerations
• Contributors