Pediatric Palliative Care: Easing Your Child's Suffering
Pediatric Palliative Care: Easing Your Child's Suffering
A team approach sees kids and families through illness.
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Doctors may suggest a consultation with the PAC team, and parents may also request it.
Pediatric palliative care is a relatively new medical specialty available in all major children's hospitals, academic hospitals, and in many mid-sized children's hospitals. But it is not available everywhere.
If a hospital does not have a palliative care program:
"Parents need to know they can ask for palliative care and it does not mean giving up on treatments," McCabe says. "We work with the treating teams to get the best care possible for their children."
Pediatric Palliative Care: Easing Your Child's Suffering
A team approach sees kids and families through illness.
(continued)
Where/When to Get Pediatric Palliative Care/Pediatric Advanced Care continued...
Doctors may suggest a consultation with the PAC team, and parents may also request it.
Pediatric palliative care is a relatively new medical specialty available in all major children's hospitals, academic hospitals, and in many mid-sized children's hospitals. But it is not available everywhere.
If a hospital does not have a palliative care program:
- Primary caregivers will perform some palliative tasks.
- You could ask your primary caregivers if it is possible to be referred to an outside facility for palliative care services.
"Parents need to know they can ask for palliative care and it does not mean giving up on treatments," McCabe says. "We work with the treating teams to get the best care possible for their children."
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