HKSPM Newsletter 2018 Issue No.2

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Contents
P02 – Editorial
P04 – Sharing on 22nd International Congress on Palliative Care
P06 – Advance Directives in Hong Kong
P09 – Care of Motor Neuron Disease (MND) patients in local settings: Palliative Perspective
P12 – Managing convulsion in palliative care patients when oral and intravenous routes are not the option
P16 – Fulfilling patients’ wishes: dying in the place of choice
P19 – Promises and caveats of immunotherapy
P22 – Re-irradiation — from palliative care perspective
P26 – Coping with Living-Dying
P29 – The final journey of a lady with end stage heart failure
P32 – Membership Application / Renewal Form
P33 – Education Seminars & Meetings
P34 – Message from SPHC

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Palliative Medicine Doctors Meeting (PMDM) 2019-01-29

Palliative Medicine Doctors Meeting (PMDM)

Presenters:
Haven of Hope Hospital
Princess Margaret Hospital
Date: 29 January 2019 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, M Block, Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Topics:
1. Use of non-invasive ventilation in the palliative care setting

2. Early palliative care integration service for patients with advanced lung cancer

Target Participants: Staff working in hospice/palliative care units or oncology units.

Other health care workers interested in hospice and palliative care are also welcome.

Accredited for CME points by HKCP, HKCR, HKCFP, CSHK, MCHK CME, HKHNA CNE 1.5

Co-organized by:
CC(Palliative Care) Hospital Authority
Hong Kong Society of Palliative Medicine

Hong Kong Palliative Nursing Association

Refreshment sponsored by Mudipharma (Hong Kong) Ltd

Poster can be downloaded here.

蘋果日報 2019-01-12 報導:醫生批《守護神之保險調查》誤導

香港紓緩醫學學會主席吳常青表示,劇中指紓緩治療即由病人自生自滅的說法是錯誤的。相反,紓緩治療是一種積極治療。當病人確診末期癌症,或不可治癒的器官衰竭時,身體會有不同痛苦,情緒會受困擾,家人或照顧者會哀傷。負責紓緩治療的醫護人員會主動了解病人及家屬所需,紓緩病人身體及心靈痛苦,改善生活質素,讓病人在人生最後階段盡量過得精彩,絕非要病人放棄治療,或只讓病人等死。

連結:蘋果日報即時新聞 2019年1月12日