Palliative Care

This week I attended the session of "palliative care" it takes place every Wednesday at the State Institute of Oncology. Today's topic was management of pain in patients according to WHO. I learned about the different scales that exist for classifying the pain and what are the drugs that you can use in each of the levels of pain.

This is one of the scales of pain, it is known as Visual Analog Scale (VAS):

The drug used for pain management will be according to how the patient is classified on the scale. For this, there is the WHO's Pain Ladder for adults:

The information was given to the staff of the institution is very important because all cancer patients have pain. It is necessary that we know how to manage pain or even to report it to a doctor. So we will be helping to improve the quality of life for patients with cancer. It is useful for people, we don't criticize the famous paracetamol, because it is a first-line drug for pain relief with low cost.