Newsletter Pediatric Palliative Care
Dear friends,
just a quick update on some literature on the web and conferences in Paediatric Palliative Care (PPC).
Also I would like to draw your attention to the information provided by Mary V. Callaway about accessing
some funding for palliative care policy development.
Best regards,
cheers,
Stefan
Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD
Fellow in Paediatric Palliative Care
Pain and Palliative Care Service
The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Locked Bag 4001
Westmead NSW 2145
Australia
stefan.friedrichsdorf@web.de
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WHO Guidelines "Cancer pain relief and palliative care in children"
(1998)
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Those of you, who haven't got this volume: You may download this free of charge (as a pdf-file):
English version:
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/9241545127.pdf
Spanish version:
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/9243545124.pdf
French version:
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/9242545120.pdf
Russian version:
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/522503604x.pdf
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Mistake in "Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children"
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The above WHO-booklet "Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children"
(1998) unfortunately provides a major mistake (also in the pdf-file):
Page 32, Table 6:
Hydromorphon
Child > 50kg
it should read: 1-1.5 mg every 2-4 hours and NOT as printed 1-1.5 mg/kg every 2-4 hours
("per kg" would be a lethal overdose of course)
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"Cancer Pain Release" - a Publication of the WHO
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you may go to http://www.WHOcancerpain.wisc.edu
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Dear Friends
Here's a good chance for us to try to access some funding for palliative
care policy development in the region. Please share the funding
announcement below with all of your palliative care colleagues. It
would be fabulous to have a lot of applications for palliative care
fellowships.
Best
Mary
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
To qualify for a fellowship, applicants must be affiliated with a relevant policy-making or research institution in their country of permanent residence (university, non-governmental organization,
government agency, policy institute, etc). Applicants must be permanent residents of one of the following countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran and other countries of the Middle East, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia,
countries of North Africa, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
PLEASE NOTE:
Calls for Proposals for Palliative Care Public Health Policy Fellowships available for Public Health through OSI-Budapest in 2004. The call for proposals (public health is section 13) and application
form are visible online through http://www.osi.hu/ipf/apply.html.
Please disseminate this information through your networks. All applications must be in by August 1, 2003, submitted exclusively online through the website.
More information can be glimpsed through the following URLs:
http://www.osi.hu/ipf/index.html
http://www.policy.hu/ipf/about/
http://www.policy.hu/ipf/fel-pubs/FellowReportingGuidelines.htm
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Conferences / Courses
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47 July 2003, Belfast, UK
26th European Cystic Fibrosis Congress
cf2003@project-planning.com
8 July 2003, York, UK
FSID Conference: Responding when a baby dies
Foundation for Sudden Infant Deaths
http://www.sids.org.uk/fsid/rwabdconf03.htm
912 September 2003, Adelaide, Australia
7th Australian Palliative Care Conference.
http://www.sapmea.asn.au
11-12 September 2003, Glasgow, UK
European Federation of Psychosocial Oncology Societies
http://www.meetings.co.uk/efpos
14-17 September 2003, Alexandria (Washington, D.C.), USA
Children's Hospice International
15th World Congress
http://www.chionline.org
11-14 September 2003, Bonn, Germany
99. Jahrestagung der DGKJ
(99th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Paediatricians)
http://www.dgkj.de
24 September 2003, London, UK
ACT Conference 2003
http://www.act.org.uk
27 September 2003, Belfast, UK
CLIMB (Children Living with Inherited Metabolic Diseases) Conference
http://www.climb.org.uk/
29-30 September 2003, Montréal, Canada
2ième Congrès Soins Palliatifs Pédiatriques
http://www.hsj.qc.ca/spp2003
06-10 October 2003, Datteln, Germany
Basismodul pädiatrische Palliativmedizin
(Basic Course on Paediatric Palliative Care)
eigenes-leben@web.de
10 October 2003, Bristol;
Paediatric oncology palliative care conference
clic@clic-charity.demon.co.uk
6-7 November 2003, New York City, USA
SAVE THE DATE - The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care National
Symposium:
Enhancing Family-Centered Care for Children Living with Life Threatening
Conditions
sgray@nyam.org
20 November 2003, Fribourg, Switzerland
Palliative Care 2003 - National Day of the Société Suisse de Médicine et
de
Soins Palliatifs SSMSP
http://www.med-pal.ch/f/news.php
21 - 22 November 2003, Frankfurt, Germany
GPOH-Wintertagung
(German Winter Meeting of the Paediatric Oncology/Haematology Society)
http://www.gpoh.de
26-28 November 2003, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
V Congreso Nacional de la Sociedad Española de Cuidados Paliativos
(Secpal)
congreso@grupoaran.com
1719 March 2004, Southampton, UK
The Palliative Care Congress.
http://www.pccongress.org.uk
4-6 June 2004, Stresa (Lago Maggiore), Italy
3rd Congress of the Research Network of the European Association for
Palliative Care
http://www.eapcnet.org
9-12 September 2004, Berlin, Germany
00. Jahrestagung der DGKJ
(100th Annual Meeting of the German and Austrian Society of
Paediatricians)
http://www.dgkj.de
1518 September 2004, Norway SIOP 2004:
International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP).
Fax: +31 (0)20 504 0225.
15-19 February 2005, Recklinghausen, Germany 3. Dattelner Kinderschmerztage Kongress für Kinderschmerztherapie und pädiatrische Palliativmedizin 3rd Conference on Children¹s Pain Management and
Paediatric Palliative Care
(Conference language: English and German)
http://www.eigenes-leben-ev.de
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