Medical Management

Patients suffering from chronic or terminal diseases like cancer, dementia, renal failure undergo a lot of pain. Pain is one of the most feared symptoms at the End of life. Unrelieved pain aggravates anxiety, leads to depression, and sometimes interferes with the decision-making capacity of an individual. The aim of medical management in palliative care settings to keep these patients as comfortable, alert, and as free from symptoms as possible. Aggressive pain management in advanced stages of the disease can improve the quality of life for patients as well as their loved ones, irrespective of the time they have at hand. WHO analgesic ladder is the baseline guide for the mainstay of pain management. With opioids and newer analgesics, it possible to give maximum pain relief to most of the patients.

• Other symptoms like dyspnoea, delirium, fatigue, and weakness are familiar sources of physical distress and advanced-stage patients. Comprehensive assessment, treatment of symptoms leads to a reduction in distress to the patient as well as family members. The goal of symptom management is to prevent or treat these symptoms as early as possible.  Unrelieved symptoms may have nonphysical reasons.  It has a significant impact on the patient as well as their family members. Therefore, it is essential to understand a person who has these symptoms and treat them holistically. Better symptom control improves a patient’s overall quality of life. It also makes family members more comfortable.With effective pain management, we help you to live more comfortably.