COVID 19: The New Normal in the Clinic: Overcoming Challenges in Palliative Care
Conclusion: We share our experience and challenges of providing palliative care in our clinic which can be modified as per the individual requirements in other setups. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Deepa Kerketta Khurana Saveena Gulati Raheja Madhu Dayal Dimple Pande Usha Ganapathy Source Type: research
To Study the barriers in palliative care to nonmalignant cases in COVID-19 crisis in a tertiary health-care center
Conclusion: Palliative care should be an essential part of any health-care service in any humanitarian crisis, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, effort should be made to remove the barriers and provide palliative care to the patient. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Tanya Jain Roopesh Jain Source Type: research
Opioid dispensing patterns from a tertiary care cancer hospital during the nationwide lockdown in COVID-19 pandemic
Conclusion: Despite the lockdown, the palliative care team at Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital has continued to provide adequate pain relief to patients that could manage to reach the center. Policy-makers need to be cognizant of the pain relief needs of cancer patients in times when accessing hospitals is becoming increasingly difficult. Cancer-related pain and mortality could well be the next pandemic once the current COVID-19 begins to reduce. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Ruparna Khurana Mohit Varshney Seema Mishra Nishkarsh Gupta Rakesh Garg Sachidanandjee Bharti Vinod Kumar Sushma Bhatnagar Source Type: research
Homecare and the COVID-19 pandemic & #8211; Experience at an urban specialist cancer palliative center
Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the need for support, thus reiterating the importance of continuity of care. With abundant precautions and protocols in place, home care through visits is possible. With the lockdown and restrictions now entering their fourth phase, we need to be ready now more than ever to adapt to changing times and evolving definitions of the “New Normal.” (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Nivedita Page Vinay Naik Priya Singh Prakash Fernandes Vivek Nirabhawane Santosh Chaudhari Source Type: research
Palliative care interventions from a social work perspective and the challenges faced by patients and caregivers during COVID-19
Conclusion: Palliative care is an essential component, especially in a disaster-related situation such as the COVID pandemic as patients and caregivers are left more vulnerable at this time. Telephonic and video calls play an important role in supporting patients and caregivers and in the most critical cases. However, it is also important to find the ways to provide direct home-based support to patients and families at this time so that they feel less alone, cope better, and experience meaningful support to build their resilience. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Prajakta Dhavale Akhila Koparkar Prakash Fernandes Source Type: research
Providing palliative home care during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in India
Conclusion: If guidelines and safety measures are followed, home visits are possible in the present environment. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Reena Sharma Source Type: research
Challenges encountered while providing holistic care to a cluster of COVID-19 patients
Sanjeev Kumar, Puneet Rathore, Shweta, V Krishnapriya, Alice Thankachan, Nengneivah Haokip, Balbir Kumar, Sushma BhatnagarIndian Journal of Palliative Care 2020 26(5):53-55
COVID-19 emerged as a unique type of health-care crisis. With no established protocols, it became a difficult task to manage this pandemic. Not only individual patients were the point of concern but also multiple clusters were getting reported. Management of these clusters has its own challenges varying from administrative and infrastructural to psychosocial- and stigma-related issues. A well-sought administrative will power along with a dedicated team...
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Sanjeev Kumar Puneet Rathore Shweta V Krishnapriya Alice Thankachan Nengneivah Haokip Balbir Kumar Sushma Bhatnagar Source Type: research
Running palliative care services at the institute of palliative medicine, kozhikode, amid COVID-19 pandemic: A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis
Conclusions: Having good prioritization and documentation system, reinforcing infection control practices, already established emergency homecare system, presence of a well-developed network of community-based PC services, and a vast network of community volunteers and awareness and cooperation of families had helped IPM to quickly reorganize its services and transition smoothly to continue to provide PC for those suffering from life-limiting illnesses in this pandemic situation. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Lulu Mathews Terrymize Immanuel Nisha Krishnadas Source Type: research
Effect of nation-wide lockdown on palliative care services in a tertiary care centre in India: A retrospective observational study
Conclusion: Although lockdown decreases the spread of the epidemic, it increases the suffering of other patients who require medical care. Various steps have to be adopted in the regular working pattern of hospitals to cater to the needs of the patients requiring care, without increasing the risk of contracting COVID-19. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: AR Karthik Kanika Rustagi Seema Mishra Rakesh Garg Nishkarsh Gupta Sachidanand Jee Bharati Vinod Kumar Sushma Bhatnagar Source Type: research
Patients & #39;/Caregivers & #39; perspectives on telemedicine service for advanced cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: An exploratory survey
Conclusion: Telemedicine is an important tool and an essential service to care for palliative care patients in the community especially when the patient and health-care professionals are separated by a pandemic or natural disaster. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Shrikant Atreya Gaurav Kumar Jyotiprakash Samal Moitri Bhattacharya Shabnam Banerjee Pallab Mallick Debratna Chakraborty Sunipa Gupta Saswati Sarkar Source Type: research
An update on initial epidemiological profile, clinical course, and outcome of COVID-19 patients at a tertiary care center in India
Conclusions: This case series shows middle-aged patients with comorbid diseases present with severe COVID-19 disease and have poor outcome. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Dimple Pande Anjali Kochhar Suman Saini Usha Ganapathy Anoop Raj Gogia Source Type: research
Smartphone-based telemedicine service at palliative care unit during nationwide lockdown: Our initial experience at a tertiary care cancer hospital
Conclusion: Telemedicine is the future of health-care delivery systems. In PC, we deal with immunocompromised debilitated cancer patients and telemedicine is immensely helpful for us to provide holistic integrated care to these patients who are unable to visit hospitals regularly. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Swagata Biswas Shreya Das Adhikari Nishkarsh Gupta Rakesh Garg Sachidanand Jee Bharti Vinod Kumar Seema Mishra Sushma Bhatnagar Source Type: research
Experience of palliative care services at tertiary comprehensive cancer center during COVID-19 lockdown phase: An analytical original study
Conclusion: During this pandemic, we cannot overlook the need for essential palliative care services. We can continue regular services with proper precautions as advised and by training the staff. Collaboration with different palliative centers across the country should be done to minimize patient movement. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Manisha Singh Priti Sanghavi Bhavna Patel Ravi Umrania Kikato Chishi Mayur Ghoghari Source Type: research
Concerns of health care professionals managing non-COVID patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive cross-sectional study
Conclusion: It is the need of the hour to develop a comprehensive strategy focussing on the above challenges that HCPs working in non-COVID areas are facing. This will go a long way in not only providing holistic care to the patients but also in controlling this pandemic. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Riniki Sarma Saurabh Vig Puneet Rathore Deepam Pushpam Seema Mishra Nishkarsh Gupta Rakesh Garg Vinod Kumar Sachidanand Jee Bharati Sushma Bhatnagar Source Type: research
How the COVID-19 pandemic experience has affected pediatric palliative care in Mumbai
Conclusions: Unique solutions were found for each family. These are presented in this paper. (Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care)
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Pradnya Talawadekar Smriti Khanna Veronique Dinand Prakash Fernandes Jayita Deodhar Mary Ann Muckaden Source Type: research
