palliative care – update for the acute physician 03.04.2014 dr anne goggin
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Palliative Care – update for the acute physician
03.04.2014Dr Anne Goggin
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Pain management – use of opioids
Update on LCP
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Pain management
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Evaluation
• Location• Duration• Palliative factors –
‘What makes it better?’• Provocative factors
–’What makes it worse?’• Quality• Radiation• Severity• Timing
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Analgesic history
What medication at what dose
Regularly or prnDurationEffect of current
medication on painSide-effects now or in
the past
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WHO method for cancer pain relief – is it still valid?
Recommendations for correct use of analgesics to optimise effectiveness
• By the mouth• By the clock• By the ladder
• Individual dose titration• Use adjuvant drugs• Attention to detail
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WHO analgesic ladder
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Weak Opioids
General rulesIf a weak opioid, given regularly, at maximum
recommended dose, is inadequate
- change to a strong opioid
Do not move sideways from weak opioid to weak opioid
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Stepping up from Step 2 to Step 3
• In practice this most commonly involves changing from:
• Codeine 60mg qds to morphine – m/r morphine 10-15mg q 12 hr
• Tramadol 100mg qds to morphine – m/r morphine30- 40mg q 12 hr
• Remember to prescribe prn rescue dose of oramorph at 1/6 24 hour dosage of m/r morphine
• CAVE renal impairment
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Switching from strong opioid
Opioids differ from each other in part due to receptor affinity
These properties can be used in patients who are intolerant of morphine by switching to an alternative opioid
Other reasons for alternative opioid:Transdermal route preferablePsychological ‘allergy’ to morphine
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Opioid conversion chart
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Neuropathic pain
QualitySuperficial burning / stingingSpontaneous stabbing painDeep ache
Often there isAllodyniaSensory deficit
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Neuropathic Pain
About 50% of cancer related neuropathic pain respond to the combined use of an NSAID and a strong opioid
The rest need adjuvant analgesicsMost commonly used
AmitriptylineGabapentinpregabalin
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Common reasons for unrelieved pain in advanced cancer
• Failure to evaluate each pain individually and to plan treatment accordingly
• Prescription of analgesic to be taken only ‘as needed’
• Failure to monitor patients response to prescribed analgesics
• Changing to an alternative analgesic before optimising the dose & timing of the previous analgesic
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Last Days
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More care, less pathway
• Response to substantial criticism of LCP in the media & elsewhere
• Panel to review its use in England- Chair Baroness Neuberger
• Independent of Gov & NHS
• Evidence from many quarters
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Background to Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP)
• About half of all deaths currently take place in in hospital, making care of the dying a core duty of hospital trusts.
• Proportion dying at home will rise but as death rate is rising actual numbers dying in hospital will also increase
• The LCP is an approach to care of the dying intended to ensure that uniformly good care is given to everyone thought to be dying within hours or 2 or 3 days.
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Report findings
Principles of the LCPDP - soundWhen the LCPDP is used by well trained, well-
resourced & sensitive clinical teams, it works wellWhere care is already poor the LCPDP is
sometimes used as a tick box exercisePreventable problems of communication –
accounted for substantial part of concerns raised
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Report findingsProblems of definitions & terminology
‘end of life’ – can mean between last year of life to last days or hours of life‘pathway’ is clearly being misunderstoodDiagnosis of dying
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Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People
• Statement -20 March 2014– Focus on what care should be like rather than the
delivery of particular protocols– 5 priority areas– LCPDP to be phased out by July 2014– There will not be a ‘national tool ’to replace the LCP– The priority areas will inform the inspection by CQC
of end of life care– & will inform a new NICE Clinical Guideline on the
care of dying adults
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Next Steps
More national guidance to come – late spring/ early summer 2014
Pan – Hampshire group to advise on local care plan
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Guidance for last days
• The possibility that a person may die is recognised & communicated
• Continue to visit• Simplify medication• Anticipate a time when the patient will not be
able to swallow & prescribe meds that can be given PR or subcut
• Anticipate symptoms that may arise in dying – pain, excess secretions, delirium.
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Contact details
Hospital Palliative Care Team
Mon- Fri 0830 to 1630 ext 4126Sat & Sun 0830-1630 CNS bleep 1477Out of Hours CMH 02380 477414 doctor on-
call