Palliative care is a specialized form of medical care that deals with the treatment of symptoms of serious diseases. This kind of care manages pain and stress that comes with a serious, life threatening disease.
Palliative care treats the symptoms of serious diseases as well as treatment related stress.
Palliative care can also be a mixture of symptom management and curative treatments.
The monitoring of pain medication is a crucial symptom management approach for patients with diseases that cause intense, chronic pain such as cancer, congestive heart failure and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) etc.
