Palliativedrugs.com website
Palliative Care Formulary UK 6th edition
Introducing Palliative Care 5th Edition
Palliativedrugs.com website
Palliativedrugs.com was 18 years old in 2018 and here's what you've told us recently:
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Pharmacist, UK
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Pharmacist, UK
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Nurse, UK
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Doctor, UK
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Pharmacist, UK
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Pharmacist, UK
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Doctor, India
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Pharmacist, UK
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Nurse, UK
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Doctor, Australia
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Pharmacist, UK
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Pharmacist, UK
Palliative Care Formulary 6th edition (UK)
The sixth edition of our flagship publication (Palliative Care Formulary) was published in September 2017.
Since the publication of PCF5Â in 2014, every drug monograph has been reviewed and updated. PCF6 has 35 chapters and appendices, an increase of three from PCF5. In Part 1, some drug monographs have been merged and new ones added. Part 2 has been divided into Parts 2 and 3. The new chapters are all in Part 2: Prescribing in children, Renal impairment and Hepatic impairment. Part 3 covers Routes of Administration.
Although written primarily with cancer patients in mind, PCF6 contains specific material relating to several other life-limiting diseases e.g. COPD, congestive heart failure, renal failure, and Parkinson's disease. PCF also includes a number of Quick Clinical Guides.
'Just occasionally you pick up a book which makes you wonder how you ever managed without it. PCF is one of those happy occasions.'
Palliative Medicine
'Accessible, clear and extremely well referenced, the PCF is a succinct pharmacological text for palliative care physicians and nurses.'
Hospice Bulletin
'First class. Highly recommended.'
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
'A must.'
Hospital Doctor
‘The PCF has always been, in my opinion, a core text for the specialty and has no serious rivals.’
Palliative Medicine
‘The PCF4 is excellent. I use it every day and recommend it to all my colleagues..’
Andrea D Manazza, MD, PhD, Palliative Care Home Team, ASL Territorial Health Centre, Torino4, Piedmont, Italy.
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Introducing Palliative Care
Introducing Palliative Care is a highly successful and well-established introductory text for palliative care. Over two decades, it has been used by medical students, doctors, nurses, and other health professionals in the UK and beyond. It has been translated into several other European languages, and a special economy edition has been available in Africa and India since 2003.
This fifth edition (IPC5) sees a move from single authorship to a collaborative project between the palliativedrugs.com Editorial team and eight new contributors.
IPC5 covers the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland’s recommended curriculum for medical undergraduates. It is thus a key resource for medical students, which will also serve them well as junior hospital doctors and beyond.
IPC5 has much expanded sections on ethics, the law, children, symptom management and contains the Essential Palliative Care Formulary.
Although medically oriented, there is much of use to undergraduates and graduates of other disciplines. The clinical focus is on advanced cancer but the general principles and most of the details are equally applicable to patients dying from other incurable progressive life-threatening conditions.
‘We all need one book that we know, thumb often, trust and refer to. This palliative care book fills all these roles for staff at every grade. End of life care is everyone’s business; if used to the full, this book can and will improve patient care in all settings.’
Professor Ilora Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
‘This new collaborative edition is the best of the best. Its clear, concise, balance of theory and application is admirable and is replete with practical wisdom. This is required reading for anyone serious about caring for the dying well, for it is long enough to be useful and short enough to be digestible.’
President of the Association for Palliative Medicine
‘The holistic and multimodal approach of this book, which builds on the total pain model of Dame Cicely Saunders, is particularly to be commended.’
Professor Irene Higginson, Director of the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, King’s College London
‘This book is not just a symptom control handbook, it covers all aspects of holistic care in an easy to read and navigable format. It will become an old friend - get to know it!’
Dr Fiona Rawlinson, Programme Director, Palliative Care Education, Cardiff University
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