Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality...
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Facilities may also have palliative or hospice care teams that will provide end-of-life care services. Decisions about end-of-life care are often informed by...
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Hospice (redirect from Hospice care)
other palliative care needs. Hospice care includes assistance for patients' families to help them cope with what is happening and provide care and support...
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In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable...
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Terminal illness (category Palliative care)
diagnosis. Examples include caregiving, continued treatment, palliative and hospice care, and physician-assisted suicide. Decisions regarding management...
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specifically to care in the final months or weeks of life. End-of-life care is more likely to be included in the general term "palliative care". The first...
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Cancer (section Palliative care)
targeted therapy. Pain and symptom management are an important part of care. Palliative care is particularly important in people with advanced disease. The chance...
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Oncology (redirect from Cancer care)
after successful treatment Palliative care of patients with terminal malignancies Ethical questions surrounding cancer care Screening efforts: of populations...
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Heart failure (section Palliative care)
chest pain. Palliative care should be initiated early in the HF trajectory, and should not be an option of last resort. Palliative care can not only...
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Cirrhosis (section Palliative care)
amenable for treatment through palliative care. Because the disease is not curable without a transplant, palliative care can also help with discussions...
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Parkinson's disease (section Palliative care)
and are therefore palliative. Palliative care should be involved earlier, rather than later, in the disease course. Palliative care specialists can help...
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Pancreatic cancer (section Palliative care)
Pancreatic cancer can be treated with surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, palliative care, or a combination of these. Treatment options are partly based on the...
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Daughter from California syndrome (category Palliative care)
ISBN 0880487569. Bruera, Eduardo; Portenoy, Russell K., eds. (1997). Topics in Palliative Care. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 317. ISBN 0195102452. Volandes...
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Syringe driver (category Palliative care)
harmful to be taken orally. Syringe drivers are particularly useful in palliative care, to continuously administer analgesics (painkillers), antiemetics (medication...
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Lung cancer (section Palliative care)
second-line chemotherapeutics docetaxel and ramucirumab. Integrating palliative care (medical care focused on improving symptoms and lessening discomfort) into...
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Dementia (section Palliative care)
optimal palliative care in older people with dementia: a Delphi study and recommendations from the European Association for Palliative Care". Palliative Medicine...
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Multiple myeloma (section Palliative care)
early palliative care for people with advanced multiple myeloma at the time of diagnosis and for anyone who has significant symptoms. Palliative care is...
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Lymphoma (section Palliative care)
availability of pediatric palliative care lead to improved palliative care outcomes in children with cancer?". Journal of Palliative Medicine. 16 (9): 1034–1039...
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Fentanyl (section Palliative care)
often rapid in onset, short in duration, and severe in intensity. In palliative care, transdermal fentanyl patches have a definitive, but limited role for:...
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (section Palliative care)
after lung transplantation in IPF are estimated at between 50 and 56%. Palliative care focuses on reducing symptoms and improving the comfort of patients...
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Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) is an organization whose members provide end-of-life palliative care to terminal patients in the province of Ontario...
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Colorectal cancer (section Palliative care)
outcomes. Palliative care is recommended for any person who has advanced colon cancer or who has significant symptoms. Involvement of palliative care may be...
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Thanatology (section Hospice care)
In most cases, thanatology is not specifically related to palliative care and end-of-life care, which aim to provide treatment for dying individuals and...
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Alternative medicine (redirect from Integrative health care)
approach used in palliative care than in other areas of medicine. "From its early experiences of care for the dying, palliative care took for granted...
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The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a care pathway in the United Kingdom (excluding Wales) covering palliative care options for patients...
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informed about and decline all other forms of treatment, including palliative care. Canada's law is consistent with many other nations that allow euthanasia...
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The following is a list of hospitals, hospital support services and palliative care centres in Western Australia. Medical facilities in Western Australia...
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2021-09-13. American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association...
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Institute of Palliative Medicine of Kozhikode is part of it. The Institute of Maternal and Child Health (IMCH) is a 1100 bed tertiary care center dedicated...
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Stephen Jenkinson (section Palliative care career)
teacher and grief literacy advocate. Before 2010, Jenkinson directed palliative care at Mount Sinai Hospital of Toronto, Canada. Orphan Wisdom is a method...
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