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A council is a term used to describe a consultation between doctors aimed at establishing further diagnostics, examination methods and treatment of complex medical cases. The word “consilium” comes from the Latin “consilium”, meaning simply council. Currently, they are used mainly in relation to meetings of medical specialists, but may simply mean deliberating on an important matter.
Who does the council consist of?
Council consists of many medical specialists. Most often it is multidisciplinary teamto ensure that the patient, whose health condition is discussed during the meeting, is provided with consultation by each specialist, so that nothing in the test results is lost to the attending physician. Moreover, on the job council made up too planning the treatment process. Most often, a patient whose case is discussed during an interdisciplinary meeting has health problems on many levels, so treating one disease may interfere with the treatment of another. Therefore, while narody doctors of several specialties determine one treatment programto make you feel relieved or cured (if possible).
Generally council meets to discuss cases oncological patients. Therefore, such a meeting is organized within 2 weeks of the patient coming to a given hospital or within 4 weeks if a procedure was required for oncological diagnosis.
The main tasks of the council
Zadania council this includes determining the treatment plan individually according to the patient’s needs and health condition, as well as selecting a coordinator who will supervise the treatment process. Inne zadania consylium is the qualification of the patient for treatment: surgical, radiotherapy or chemotherapy, as well as determining the type of therapy that will be the most effective for this patient and possible to be carried out with his health condition.
Oncology council – a team of specialists
The team of specialists who will constitute council, there must be doctors from different fields, but also the composition is determined individually for a given case or the age of the patient. The composition is different a team of specialists in treatment dzieciand this may not be the case with adult patients.
In the case of treating children in composition oncology council enter:
- children’s oncologist,
- pediatric hematologist,
- specialist in radiotherapy, oncological radiotherapy or nuclear medicine – depending on the chosen method of cancer treatment,
- pediatric surgeon or pediatric surgeon of maxillofacial or dental specialization or otolaryngologist, depending on the specific case.
In turn, in the treatment of neoplastic diseases in adult oncology council make up:
- clinical oncologist,
- an oncologist or general surgeon or a specialist related to the location of the tumor,
- radiologist, radiodiagnostist or specialist in imaging diagnostics,
- specialist in radiotherapy, oncological radiotherapy or nuclear medicine, depending on the chosen method of treatment.
In very special cases, when it gathers oncology council for patients with cancers of the blood system or the lymphatic system, the conference must be attended by at least two hematologists or clinical oncology doctors or a specialist in clinical oncology and hematology. It is worth knowing that in council psychologists, nurses or other medical workers who are in contact with the patient may also participate.