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Advance care planning / Decision making

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General

Non-cancer diseases

Heart Failure Palliative Approach to Care (HeFPAC) This guide for nurses provides key information relevant to the nursing care of patients with advanced (or end-stage) chronic...

Heart Failure Symptom Management Guideline: Anorexia/Cachexia This clinical practice guideline has been developed to support health care providers who are assessing symptoms of anorexia...

Heart Failure Symptom Management Guideline: Dyspnea This clinical practice guideline has been developed to support health care providers who are assessing symptoms of dyspnea...

Heart Failure Symptom Management Guideline: Edema/ Ascites This clinical practice guideline has been developed to support health care providers who are assessing symptoms of edema...

Heart Failure Symptom Management Guideline: Fatigue This clinical practice guideline has been developed to support health care providers who are assessing symptoms of fatigue...

Heart Failure Symptom Management Guideline: Nausea and Vomiting This clinical practice guideline has been developed to support health care providers who are assessing symptoms of nausea...

Heart Failure Symptom Management Guideline: Pain This clinical practice guideline has been developed to support health care providers who are assessing symptoms of pain in...

Hospice Enabled Dementia Care: The first steps A guide to help hospices establish care for people with dementia, their families and carers.

ICD Deactivation at the End of Life: Principles and Practice A discussion document for health care professionals.

Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Deactivation Algorithm This algorithm has been developed to support health care providers in decision manking in assessing when to deactivate an...

Psychosocial / spiritual care

Symptoms

Pruritus - B.C. Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines These best practice guidelines are a result of a collaboration of the following organizations: The BC Centre for Palliative...

Respiratory Congestion - B.C. Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines These best practice guidelines are a result of a collaboration of the following organizations: The BC Centre for Palliative...

Sedation for Palliative Purposes – Evidence Informed Practice Tool This guideline provides recommendations for adult and pediatric clinical practice when Sedation for Palliative Purposes is...

Sedation for Palliative Purposes Guideline – PowerPoint Presentation This is the PowerPoint presentation that outlines details of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority guideline on Sedation...

Severe Bleeding - B.C. Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines These best practice guidelines are a result of a collaboration of the following organizations: The BC Centre for Palliative...

Twitching / Myoclonus / Seizures - B.C. Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines These best practice guidelines are a result of a collaboration of the following organizations: The BC Centre for Palliative...

Communication

Complementary therapies

Critical care

Culture

Diseases

Dying at home

Education

Ethics

Evidence databases

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning