Palliative Care Pharmacology

Pharmacological approach to palliative care provides Various medications for symptom management during palliative care of the people. Nurses are knowledgeable about the use of these medications as a part of curative care and should become familiar with them as an essential aspect of palliative care This comprises investigation of the derivation, chemical properties, physiological and behavioural effects, mechanisms of action, biological transformations, and therefore the therapeutic and non-therapeutic uses of medicine . Pharmacological studies can determine the effects of chemical agents upon subcellular, systemic, physiological or behavioural processes; focus on the treatment and prevention of diseases. Symptom relief in palliative care often presents challenges to the prescriber, and the evidence to guide choice of treatments is often derived from experience rather than controlled trials. Palliative care services have comprehensive guidelines for symptom control, often advising use of medicine for unlicensed indications. Awareness of emotional, psychological and social contributors to symptoms will help to guide strategies for management. Pharmacological approach to palliative care provides Various medications for symptom management during palliative care of the people. Nurses are knowledgeable about the use of these medications as a part of curative care and should become familiar with them as an essential aspect of palliative care. Pharmacological symptom management is only one facet of peaceful, pain-free, family-C palliative care.