Advanced Symptom & Palliative Care

The Advanced Symptom and Palliative Care Service assists children and families who are living with progressive, life-threatening diseases and the health care professionals caring for them. Life threatening diseases are those conditions that may or may not have a possibility for cure, but where survival until full adulthood is a serious challenge. These children often require advanced symptom management.

What we do

The Advanced Symptom and Palliative Care Service provides:

• Inpatient and telephone consultation
• Outpatient follow up care at Madison Clinic
• Assessment and management of symptoms associated with life-threatening diseases
• Education and support for parents and/or health care providers
• Information about symptoms, trajectory, and advanced directives
• Coordination with other healthcare professionals at BCCH, Canuck Place, and other programs

There is no requirement that families be part of the Canuck Place program.

Health care team

The Advanced Symptom and Palliative Care Service consists of physicians and nurses with advanced skills in symptom management. They are all members of the Canuck Place team and BC Children’s Hospital & Sunny Hill Health Centre.

For families

Information about Canuck Place can be found at www.canuckplace.org.

Nursing care consultation is available during regular office hours. Please call the Madison Clinic at 604-875-2345, local 5800 and select option 2 to page a Clinical Nurse Specialist/Nurse Clinician.

Physician care consultation is available 24 hours/day. Please call paging at 604-875-2161 and ask to page the palliative care physician on call.
 

Canuck Place can be contacted 24 hours/day. Please call 604-731-4847, extension 4231 or 4232 for the nursing station (referred to as the “Kid’s Counter”).