The Department of Palliative Medicine at Aster Hospitals is one of the leading Palliative Care Centres in Bangalore with the palliative care team working on the Interdisciplinary & acute palliative care model in India. The team of professionals comes with a combined work experience of over 20 years. Practising ethical, evidence-based palliative medicine, the team is dedicated to caring for patients suffering from chronic life-limiting illnesses, throughout the entire course of illness, starting from the time of diagnosis. The team comprises pain specialists, palliative specialists, Palliative Nurse-specialists, psychologists, Nutritionists, Mind-Body Medicine specialists, Physiotherapists, Occupational therapist, who work in an interdisciplinary approach, with patient-centric management. They provide symptom control and supportive care for symptoms that could arise primarily from any life-limiting illness or from the treatment for the illness. The examples being heart failure, chronic kidney disease, chronic pulmonary disease, Cancer, Chronic liver disease, Neurological illness, Paediatric palliative care.
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