Tools for Practice

Our clinical team has identified protocols, advanced practices, and assessment and evaluation tools to help support your practice.

Palliative care emergencies
The Champlain Region Palliative Sedation Therapy Clinical Practice and Medication Guidelines (2018) The guidelines were developed to ensure safe, effective, and appropriate use of palliative sedation therapy and to enhance...
Emergencies in Palliative and Supportive Care Practical guide to emergency situations encountered in palliative care practice. Using a system of icons, and structured...
Metastatic spinal cord compression: diagnosis and management of patients at risk of or with malignant spinal cord compression This Guideline is published in recognition that patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC) sometimes suffer...
Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know should be an essential component of basic educational preparation...
Spinal Cord Compression One of many symptom management guidelines developed by the Fraser Health Hospice Palliative Care Program.
Surgical Grand Rounds: Palliative Care (presentations) online presentations from Surgical Grand Rounds: Palliative Care at University of Massachusetts, Memorial Medical Center,...
What to do if a hemorrhage occurs: Information for patients and families This handout prepared by Victoria Hospice identifies some information and strategies for patients and families around handling...
When Cancer Spreads to Bone: Spinal Cord Compression Patient/family handout describing what it is, what are the symptoms and how it is treated. Free online access and downloadable...
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