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Palliative care
Our role
This multidisciplinary team of healthcare staff exercising different professions aims to ensure continuity of care at the Erasmus Hospital and externally when the patient approaches end of life or requires symptomatic treatment, notably to manage pain and uncomfortable symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, hiccups, constipation, etc. Our mobile team is available on request for the care team, patient and patient’s family.
Our specialities
Our team consists of liaison psychiatrists, internists, nurses, psychologists, physiotherapists, dietitians, pharmacists and social workers. Their missions are to give timely and/or repeated opinions without assuming direct responsibility for the patient, to offer support to those around the patient and the care teams, to prepare for discharge, return home or transfer to another institution or rest home in close cooperation with the family GP and the required outpatient assistance and care structures. All team members listen to the patient, possibly provide advice and increase the awareness of all the interlocutors while respecting their individual philosophical convictions and religious beliefs. The joint approach to a patient with a serious, progressive and incurable illness must be centred around respect for autonomy while seeking to guarantee as much as possible the remaining quality of life and comfort.
Useful links
- Fédération Bruxelloise de Soins Palliatifs (FBSP)
- Association pluraliste de soins palliatifs de la région de Bruxelles (Palliabru) : +32 (0)2 743 45 92