Palliative care (redirect from Palliation)
providing context, information, and options for treatment and medical palliation. In the case of critically ill babies, parents are able to participate...
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for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses...
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and colleagues in 1981. Variations of the Norwood procedure, or Stage 1 palliation, have been proposed and adopted over the last 30 years; however, its basic...
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diagnosis and staging of disease, disease cure, tumour debulking, symptom palliation and patient rehabilitation". Surgical prevention of cancer largely consists...
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Hospice is a type of care and a philosophy of care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan...
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malformations results in cyanotic heart failure at an early age. Staged palliation through the BDG shunt and Fontan procedure has allowed these patients...
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is larger. The BTT shunt is used in the first step of the three-stage palliation (the Norwood procedure). While the originally described Blalock–Thomas–Taussig...
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that it will recur. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are commonly used for palliation, where disease is clearly incurable: in this situation the aim is to improve...
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(January 2016). "Media, institutions, and government action: Prevention vs. palliation in the time of cholera". European Journal of Political Economy. 41: 75–93...
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as radiation therapy and is largely used for the management (including palliation) of cancer; it requires higher radiation doses than those received for...
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for severe dyspnea and cough. Further, oxygen therapy may be useful for palliation of dyspnea in hypoxemic patients. Palliative care also includes relief...
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Fields S (August 2009). "Evidence-based review of interventions to improve palliation of pain, dyspnea, depression". Geriatrics. 64 (8): 8–10, 12–14. PMID 20722311...
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Kawashima procedure)—relieves some of the problems introduced by Stage I palliation. In this operation, the superior vena cava is ligated from the heart and...
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Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and...
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Later stages of adenocarcinoma may be treated with surgical resection or palliation. Those with nondysplastic or low-grade dysplasia are managed by annual...
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Hospice is a type of care and a philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. Hospice may also refer to: Hospice...
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intravenous or intracavity administration of 89Sr may be helpful in the palliation of painful bony metastases, as it allows radiation to be targeted at metastatic...
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to temporarily relieve the obstruction as a bridge to surgery, or as palliation. Diagnosis of the type of bowel obstruction is normally conducted through...
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used as a radionuclide in neuroendocrine tumor therapy and bone pain palliation. Lutetium (177Lu) vipivotide tetraxetan is a therapy for prostate cancer...
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hepaticojejunostomy or choledochojejunostomy with gastrojejunostomy as palliation for irresectable pancreatic head cancer. Roux operation. whonamedit.com...
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patients with afferent loop syndrome due to recurrent tumors shifts to palliation. Nonbilious vomiting, nausea, and abrupt onset stomach pain in the right...
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ATC code V10 Therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals is a therapeutic subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System, a system of alphanumeric...
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have a role in intrahepatic variants of cholangiocarcinoma to provide palliation or potential cure in people who are not surgical candidates. If the tumor...
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treatment of Sano shunt obstruction in patients following modified Norwood palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome". Clinical Research in Cardiology...
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Fontan-Kreutzer procedure is the third procedure in the staged surgical palliation. It is performed in children born with congenital heart disease without...
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R; Birg, Aleksandr (2016-06-15). "Malignant biliary obstruction: From palliation to treatment". World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology. 8 (6): 498–508...
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(March 2007). "The pharmacological importance of cytochrome CYP3A4 in the palliation of symptoms: review and recommendations for avoiding adverse drug interactions"...
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all gross visible tumor (macroscopic complete resection), not simply palliation. Extrapleural pneumonectomy is a more extensive operation that involves...
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Fields S (August 2009). "Evidence-based review of interventions to improve palliation of pain, dyspnea, depression". Geriatrics. 64 (8): 8–10, 12–4. PMID 20722311...
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off-label for treatment of severe migraine. It is often, particularly as palliation, used in small doses to reduce nausea by opioid-treated cancer patients...
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