Challenging Cases in Palliative Care

1. Pain Management 1: Anna Schuberth and Matt Mulvey: Cancer-related bone pain 2: Rebecca Gemmell and Craig Montgomery: Cancer-related neuropathic pain 3: Lucy Hetherington and Alison Mitchell: Interventional pain 4: Lucy Hetherington and Chris Farnham: Pain in people with drug dependence 5: Lauri Simkiss and Iain Jones: Chronic non-cancer pain 2. Management of symptoms in advanced illness 6: Natasha Lovell and Sabrina Bajwah: Breathlessness 7: Holly McGuigan and Anna Sutherland: Nausea, vomiting and hiccups 8: Lucy Ison and Barry Laird and Richard Skipworth: Cancer cachexia 9: Sarah Webster and Emily Rea and Emma Husbands: Palliative bowel obstruction 10: Rose O'duffy and Maggie Presswood: Pruritis 11: Grace Rowley and Phil Lodge: Mouth care 12: Anna Bradley and Jason Boland: Constipation 13: Rob McConnell, Michael Connolly and Leona Butterly: Diarrhoea 3. Management of the dying patient 14: Simon Etkind and Paddy Stone: Clinical uncertainty and prognostication 15: Sarah Longwell and Lucy Wyld: De-escalation from ITU 16: Alice Copley and Sarah Yardley: Community patient transferred into ED/AMU - rapid assessment and decision-making 17: Luke Nathaniel Hatton and Melinda Presland: Prescribing review 18: Rosanna Hill and Adam Hurlow: Co-ordination and transfer of care 19: Shaun Qureshi, Philippa Guppy, Georgina Osborne and Rasha Al-Qurainy: Giving remote advice to families and other professional providers 20: Tammy Oxley and Katherine Malia: What to expect with death at home 21: Steph Hicks and Ben Bowers: Individualised end of life care plans 4. Interface between palliative care and mental health 22: Felicity Wood and Annabel Price: Depression in the context of life-limiting illness 23: Manraj Bhamra and Khalida Ismail: Hoarding 24: Kitty Jackson and Felicity Wood: Delirium 25: Kirsty Tolmie and Karen Harrison Dening: Dementia 26: Jamie Richardson and Valerie Potter: Learning disabilities 27: Dan Hughes and Maggie Bisset: Serious mental health and the palliative care patient, including patients under section 5. Challenging physiology/physical conditions 28: Steph Lister Flynn and Emma Murphy: Symptom management in organ failure (renal failure) 29: Constantina Pitsillides and Lou Wiblin: Rigidity 30: Kirsty Douglas and Rachel Burman: Sialorrhoea 31: Felicity Dewhurst and Caroline Nicholson: Frailty/multi-morbidity 32: Jaspal Mann and Alastair Lumb: Diabetic management at end of life 33: Mairi Finlay, Oliver Jackson and Mark Teo: Palliative management of malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC) 34: Geoff Wells and Jane Neerkin: Seizures 6. Personalised palliative care 35: Rebecca Tiberini and Jon Martin: Care planning and goal setting 36: Georgina Osborne and Bee Wee: Advance care planning 37: Athul Manuel and Sunitha Daniel: Pandemics and disaster response 38: Sarah Maan, Alice Gray and Andrew Goodhead: Spiritual care 39: Max Charles and Jonathan Koffman: Cultural care 40: Lara Datta-Paulin, Mark Warren and Richard Berman: Supportive care/survivorship 41: Toni Mortimer and Caroline Shulman: Specific challenges: homelessness 42: Gurpreet Gupta and Joanna Elverson: Transition from children's to adult palliative care 43: Joe Sawyer and Libby Sallnow: Developing compassionate communities 44: Charlotte Chamberlain and Lucy Selman: Bereavement 7. Legal considerations 45: Becky Payne and Sam Lund: A desire for hastened death 46: Gemma Lewis-Williams and Mark Taubert: Treatment escalation plans and CPR decisions 47: Simeon Senders Galloway and Anna Gorringe: Withdrawal of treatment 48: Marie Claire Rooney and Jo Laddie: Autonomy in children