Healthcare Professionals
Welcome to the ALS Society of Canada on line resources for Healthcare Professionals caring for people with ALS. Here you will find the latest and most comprehensive information about this disease.
RESOURCES OF INTEREST:
- ALS - Case Conundrums by Wendy Johnston - January 2006
- A clinical look at the disease that renders a body helpless
- A Guide to ALS Patient Care For Primary Care Physicians
If you are a family doctor or general practitioner with a patient recently diagnosed with ALS or a patient you suspect may have ALS, the new Guide to ALS Care for Primary Care Physicians is for you! To ensure the best possible quality of care, it is critical that patients with ALS have primary care physicians who are knowledgeable about their disease and who work in collaboration with an ALS specialty team. The new Guide will assist you to:
- recognize signs and symptoms of ALS
- understand ALS progression, symptom management, changing patient needs, and the importance of interdisciplinary ALS care
- help your patients and caregivers cope with living with this very complex and progressive neuromuscular disease
- ALS Healthcare Professional Handbook
- This Healthcare Professional Handbook is available in both official languages, in PDF format or may be ordered from the ALS Society of Canada.
- Manuals for People Living with ALS
- The Manual for People Living with ALS is a resource developed by the ALS Society and is provided free of charge to all Canadians diagnosed with ALS, delivered either by their clinic or through the Provincial ALS Society. It is available in English and French either in print or downloadable from this site.
- Making Hard Decisions
- Making Hard Decisions is a video with study guide designed for Healthcare Professionals to assist those with life threatening diseases to discuss the 'hard decisions'. The 30 minute video is a conversation with Karen and Dr Barry Smith, the former Dean of Medicine, Queen's University then living with ALS. To order copies contact LM Media Marketing Services Ltd., 1-800-268-2380, lmmedia@rogers.com; Fax 905-665-9353; web site http://www.lm-media.com/videos/
- Resources on the web
- Research
- Drug Trials
- Directory of International ALS/MND Organizations
- BOOKS
- VIDEOS for the Healthcare professional
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