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Pocketbook and App

Pallium provides clinical decision support tools and resources for primary-care providers that share and promote best practice in palliative and end-of-life care. These are practical, interprofessional just-in-time clinical resources that can be referenced in a health care professional’s daily practice.

Pallium Palliative Pocketbook

The Pallium Palliative Pocketbook is a practical, peer-reviewed, and fully referenced one-stop resource that is intended to support safe, ethical, effective and accountable palliative clinical service. Its compact size and easily accessible information make it ideal for non-specialist physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and medical students.

The Pocketbook is Pallium’s best-selling resource.

Topics covered include:

Principles of palliative care
Advance Care Planning and decision-making
Ethics in palliative care
Respiratory symptoms
Neurological problems
Palliative emergencies
Psychological and psychiatric distress
Total suffering, spirituality, dignity and spiritual care
Metabolic, electrolyte and endocrine problems
Palliative sedation at the end-of-life
Interventions
And more.

Pallium Palliative Pocketbook – hard copy

This is the printed version of the best-selling Pallium Palliative Pocketbook — a comprehensive resource about palliative and end-of-life care that you can keep on hand for quick reference.

Pallium Palliative Pocketbook – eBook

This is the electronic version of the best-selling Pallium Palliative Pocketbook — a comprehensive digital resource about palliative and end-of-life care that is available at your fingertips.

The Pallium Central app

The Pallium Central App allows you to find, enroll in, and access Pallium Canada’s suite of online and in-person Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP) courses and modules. Use the resources feature to find and view palliative care clinical tools and resources.

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