TY - JOUR
T1 - MECC regional initiative in pediatric palliative care
T2 - Middle eastern course on pain management
AU - Silbermann, Michael
AU - Al-Hadad, Salma
AU - Ashraf, Shamvil
AU - Hessissen, Laila
AU - Madani, Abdellah
AU - Noun, Peter
AU - Khayat, Claudia
AU - Al-Rimawi, Hala
AU - Kebudi, Rejin
AU - Yaniv, Isaac
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - In all the major medical centers throughout the Middle East, there is a functioning pediatric hematology oncology department. In almost all countries, opioids such as morphine, oxycodone, and fentanyl are available. Pediatric palliative care services are still in their infancy and await further recognition and development. Unfortunately, there are still countries in the Middle East where children with cancer are diagnosed when the disease is already at stage III or IV, when the only option left is palliation. To decrease the incidence of late presentation, more effort is needed concerning public awareness, and concomitantly, an urgent need to develop hospital-based and community-based palliative and supportive care services. The initial step in this direction would involve more training of health care providers: Pediatricians, Pediatric Oncologists, Oncology Nurses, and Social Workers with updated pharmacological and nonpharmacological modalities of treatment.
AB - In all the major medical centers throughout the Middle East, there is a functioning pediatric hematology oncology department. In almost all countries, opioids such as morphine, oxycodone, and fentanyl are available. Pediatric palliative care services are still in their infancy and await further recognition and development. Unfortunately, there are still countries in the Middle East where children with cancer are diagnosed when the disease is already at stage III or IV, when the only option left is palliation. To decrease the incidence of late presentation, more effort is needed concerning public awareness, and concomitantly, an urgent need to develop hospital-based and community-based palliative and supportive care services. The initial step in this direction would involve more training of health care providers: Pediatricians, Pediatric Oncologists, Oncology Nurses, and Social Workers with updated pharmacological and nonpharmacological modalities of treatment.
KW - Middle Eastern countries
KW - pain physiology and management
KW - palliative care
KW - pediatric oncology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84857823400&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1097/MPH.0b013e318249aa98
DO - 10.1097/MPH.0b013e318249aa98
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C2 - 22357142
AN - SCOPUS:84857823400
SN - 1077-4114
VL - 34
SP - S1-S11
JO - Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
JF - Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
IS - SUPPL. 1
ER -