ACT publication: Basic Symptom Control in Paediatric Palliative Care

This resource provides doctors and nursing staff with an all-in-one reference tool for symptom management and children's palliative care medicines

Basic Symptom Control in Paediatric Palliative Care is a newly revised and extended key resource for all doctors and nurses providing care and support to terminally ill or life-threatened children. 

It's been designed to provide both practical support and hands-on clinical information in the acute setting. Basic Symptom Control in Paediatric Palliative Care, now in its eighth edition, includes new chapters on ethics and law in children's palliative and HIV and AIDS, as well as major updates on ventilation and neurology. For the first time it includes a comprehensive prescribing formulary to support those prescribing in children's palliative medicine. 

The resource has been published by ACT and is funded by the Department of Health.  Basic Symptom Control in Paediatric Palliative Care is available free to download here.