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Continuity of care. Life support.
The Health service journal, 2007The advent of patient choice will provide a challenge to continutiy of care for patients. The impact on long-term conditions, where regular patient monitoring is essential, is particularly important. Better use of technology is part of the solution.
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End-of-Life Care after Termination of SUPPORT
The Hastings Center Report, 1995During conversations, Mr. H often paused to catch his breath or to lift his oxygen mask and cough up thick secretions. An emaciated twenty-nine-year-old man with end-stage cystic fibrosis, he had been admitted to the hospital for intensive antibiotics and respiratory therapy, in the hope of slowing his downhill course. For him, lung transplantation was
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End of Life Care and Withdrawal of Life Support
DeckerMed Critical Care of the Surgical Patient, 2020Despite advances in critical care medicine and resuscitation, many patients who are admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) will ultimately die. Although outcomes may be better for surgical rather than medical ICU patients, addressing the end of life is a fundamental and necessary aspect of critical care for all patients.
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New life-support course for emergency care staff
Emergency Nurse, 2017Doncaster Royal Infirmary's emergency department (ED) staff have taken part in a new intermediate life-support training course.
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[Extracorporeal Life Support in Critical Care Medicine].
Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS, 2023Veno-arterial extracorporeal life support (ECLS) may be indicated in patients with refractory heart failure. The list of conditions in which ECLS is successfully used is growing and includes cardiogenic shock following myocardial infarction, refractory cardiac arrest, septic shock with low cardiac output and severe intoxication.
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Palliative Care and End-of-Life Support
2021Abstract Both hospice and palliative care are reviewed in depth in this chapter. The different options available to the patient are discussed as well as when each option may be most appropriate. The reader is also provided a variety of common symptoms to be aware of when providing palliative care.
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The role of supportive care in quality of life
Current Opinion in ONCOLOGY, 1996Supportive care interventions are usually given with the intent of improving quality of life. Until recently, however, even studies of palliative interventions have infrequently incorporated some measure of overall benefit. This article reviews those recent supportive care studies that have attempted to measure either quality of life or some benefit ...
D, Warr, R, Feld
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Palliative Care and End-of-Life Support
2017Hospice and palliative care are part of the active care continuum. Hospice care involves an interdisciplinary approach to diagnosing and managing suffering and addressing the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients and their families. Hospice care should be considered when no further interventions or treatments can cure or prolong the ...
Paul W. DenOuden, Jonathan S. Appelbaum
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