With ESRD patients bearing a significant symptom burden, comfort is the target for integrating palliative care principles and practices. Resources include:
- Treating Pain in Late Stage CKD & Dialysis Patients Clinical Algorithm and Preferred Medications is a brochure developed by an international panel of experts in pain and symptom management in order to assist clinicians managing pain in dialysis patients. The brochure includes:
- A pain management algorithm
- An overview of the essentials of pain management
- The World Health Organization’s analgesic ladder
- Instructions for neuropathic and nociceptive pain treatment
- How to manage opioid adverse effects
- Preferred medications in CKDA pain assessment
- REVIEW ARTICLE FROM NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE – Comfort Care for Patients Dying in the Hospital This article provides an excellent review of generalist palliative care for patients dying in the hospital and much of it may be applicable to the outpatient care setting.Full citation: Blinderman CD, Billings JA. Comfort Care for Patients Dying in the Hospital. NEJM. 2015; 373(26), 2549-2561. (Please note: This article is free to view, but you may have set up an NEJM account, if you do not already have one.)
- CSCKP guide to best practices and resources for symptom management This short guide provides links to a wealth of resources to help kidney professionals manage the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual suffering of end stage kidney disease.
- Pain Management in ESRD, Alvin Moss, MD
- Symptom Assessment and Management (slide presentation PDF) This presentation was developed and presented as a webinar on March 24, 2010, by Steven Weisbord, MD, from VA Pittsburgh Health care System. The following are covered in this presentation:
- Pain Assessment and Management (slide presentation PDF) Developed and presented as a February 17, 2010 webinar by Sara Davison, MD, University of Alberta.