{"id":617,"date":"2012-04-26T14:50:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=617"},"modified":"2012-04-26T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:50:10","slug":"news-and-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2012\/04\/26\/news-and-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com-19\/","title":{"rendered":"News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palliativedrugs.com\/\">www.palliativedrugs.com<\/a>,\u00a0the world\u2019s leading palliative care website.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hot topics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO guidelines for treating persistent pain in children<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a package on the pharmacological treatment of persisting pain in children with medical illnesses, which replaces the previous guidelines &#8216;Cancer pain relief and palliative care in children&#8217;. The package contains information for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>physicians and nurses<\/li>\n<li>pharmacists<\/li>\n<li>policy-makers and medicines regulatory authorities, hospital managers and health insurance managers,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>a dosing card, pain scales and a wall chart. All can be downloaded from the International Children\u2019s Palliative Care (ICPCN) Network website link below.<\/p>\n<p>Changes to the guidelines include recommending using analgesic treatments in <em>two<\/em> steps according to the child\u2019s level of pain severity. Paracetamol and ibuprofen are the medicines of choice in the first step: the treatment of mild pain. In the second step, the treatment of moderate to severe pain, morphine is the medicine of choice. WHO recommends that codeine and tramadol no longer be used for children. The initial doses of strong opioids recommended are lower than those recommended elsewhere. For more information click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icpcn.org.uk\/news_item.asp?itemid=1450&amp;itemTitle=WHO+guidelines+on+the+pharmacological+treatment+of+persisting+pain+in+children+with+medical+illnesses&amp;section=000100010004&amp;utm\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DH guidance on clostridium difficile infections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UK Department of Health (DH) has issued revised guidance on how to test, report and manage <em>clostridium difficile <\/em>infections. For more information click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dh.gov.uk\/en\/Publicationsandstatistics\/Publications\/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance\/DH_132927\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Prepared by Sarah Charlesworth and Andrew Wilcock<\/em><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com,\u00a0the world\u2019s leading palliative care website. \u00a0 Hot topics \u00a0 WHO guidelines for treating persistent pain in children The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a package on the pharmacological treatment of persisting pain in children with medical illnesses, which replaces the previous guidelines &#8216;Cancer [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2012\/04\/26\/news-and-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com-19\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2833],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}