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Methadone analgesia for children with advanced cancer

BACKGROUND: Methadone is frequently used in the treatment of adults with advanced cancer. A criticism of relevant research is the use of single or fixed doses, which does not reflect use in clinical practice. Literature about use of methadone in the…

Tags: 2008, Backlog, Davies D, Devlaming D, Haines C, Journal Article, Methadone, Pediatric Blood & Cancer

Children who 'grow up' in hospital: Inpatient stays of six months or longer.

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical course of all infants and children hospitalized for six consecutive months (180 days) or longer at a...

Tags: 2014, Backlog, Davies D, Hartfield D, Journal Article, Paediatrics & Child Health, Wren T

When parents say "more" and health care professionals say "enough".

Tags: 2015, Davies D, Mack C, Paediatrics & Child Health

Lexicon of Terms in Pediatric Palliative Care

PedPalASCNET-Lexicon-31-July2014-Final.pdf

This Lexicon has been developed through a collaborative process by the PedPalASCNET network members as a tool for clinicians and researchers to standardize the usage of common terms in the field of pediatric palliative care. The Lexicon reflects the…

Tags: 2014, Davies D, Macdonald ME, Siden H, Spicer S, Vadeboncoeur C

Introducing a lexicon of terms for paediatric palliative care.

Tags: 2015, Davies D, Macdonald ME, Paediatrics & Child Health, Siden H, Spicer S, Vadeboncoeur C

Introducing a Lexicon of Terms for Pediatric Palliative Care

2015

Tags: 2015, Backlog, Davies D, Journal Article, Macdonald ME, Paediatrics & Child Health, PEDI Study, Siden H, Spicer S, Vadeboncoeur C

Intravenous ketamine infusion as an adjuvant to morphine in a 2-year-old with severe cancer pain from metastatic neuroblastoma

A 2.8-year-old female patient (11.6 kg) was admitted to the hospital for uncontrolled pain and swelling in the left leg relating to a metastatic neuroblastoma. Initially, her pain was managed with oral morphine 2 mg (approx. 0.2 mg/kg) every 4 hours.…

Guidance on forgoing life-sustaining medical treatment

Pediatric health care is practiced with the goal of promoting the best interests of the child. Treatment generally is rendered under a presumption in favor of sustaining life. However, in some circumstances, the balance of benefits and burdens to the…

Tags: 2017, Apparent Life Threatening Event/th [therapy], Article, Awareness, Boss RD, Caregiver, Carter BS, Child Abuse, Child Care, Christian CW, Clinical Decision Making, Comatose Patient, Consensus, Consultation, Critical Illness/th [therapy], Davies D, Death, Death By Neurologic Criteria, Dell ML, Developmental Disorder/th [therapy], Diekema DS, Disease Burden, Disease Course, Elster N, Ethical Decision Making, Extremely Low Gestational Age, Family Decision Making, Family Stress, Feudtner C, Flaherty EG, Fortson BL, Foster Care, Gavril AR, Gestational Age, Goal Attainment, Guinn-Jones M, Hauer JM, Health Belief, High Risk Population, Human, Humphrey LM, Hurley TP, Hydration, Idzerda SM, Imaizumi S, Imminent Death, Informed Consent, Intensive Care, Interpersonal Communication, Katz AL, Klick J, Klipstein S, Laskey A, Laventhal N, Legal Aspect, Legano LA, Leventhal JM, Life-sustaining Medical Treatment, Linebarger JS, Lord B, MacAuley RC, MacMillan H, Medical Ethics, Medical Expert, Medical Information, Medical Procedures, Medical Specialist, Medically Administered Nutrition And Hydration, Moon MR, Neglect, Neurologic Disease/di [diagnosis], November 2017 List, Nutrition, Okun AL, Opel DJ, Oxygenation, Pain/th [therapy], Palliative Therapy, Parker S, Patient Care Planning, Pediatrician, Pediatrics, Practice Guideline, Priority Journal, Prognosis, Quality Of Life, Resuscitation, Rivera F, shared decision making, Social Support, Spiritual Care, Statter MB, Stedt E, Survival, Teamwork, Terminal Care, Tissue Perfusion, Uncertain Prognosis, Weise KL

Pediatric palliative care in Canada in 2012: a cross-sectional descriptive study.

BACKGROUND: Pediatric palliative care focuses on comprehensive symptom management and enhancing quality of life for children with life-threatening conditions and their families. Our aim was to describe Canadian programs that provided specialized…

Tags: 2016, Adam R, Amrita S, Claude C, Cmaj Open, Daoust L, Davies D, Gregoire Marie-Claude, Hodgson-Viden H, Laflamme J, Liben S, Robertson M, Siden H, Stenekes S, Vadeboncoeur C, Widger K

Not There Yet: Pediatric Palliative Care In Canada 2002 – 2012

Objectives: As a follow-up to a study conducted in 2002,
our objective was to obtain an accurate description of
programs that provided specialized pediatric palliative
care (PPC) in 2012 and the children who received it;
explore changes in the…

Tags: 2016, Claude Cyr, Davies D, December 2016 List, Gregoire Marie-Claude, Heather Hodgson-Viden, Helene Roy, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Liben S, Lysanne Dauost, Rapoport A, Robertson M, Sarpal A, Siden H, Simone Stenekes, Vadeboncoeur C, Widger K

Pediatric patients receiving palliative care in Canada: results of a multicenter review

OBJECTIVES: To describe the patients who received care from the 8 dedicated pediatric palliative care programs in Canada in 2002 and to estimate the number of children who may have benefited but did not receive services from these programs. DESIGN:…

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