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In addition to pharmacologic treatment of pain, hospice staff and
volunteers must learn to be creative in the use of other pain control
techniques, such as:
Such therapies not only help control pain, they also increase a patient's sense of control and self-esteem. We must remember that palliative care is intensive care. Inadequate control of physical symptoms in patients with terminal illnesses is no less a failure than inadequate control of arrhythmias in patients with reversible cardiac disease. |