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Update in Palliative Medicine

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2008
This Update in Palliative Care features 7 recent articles of interest to palliative care practitioners.
Nathan E, Goldstein, Daniel, Fischberg
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Neuromodulation and Palliative Medicine

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 2013
The palliative care population is generally vulnerable to experiencing medication-induced adverse effects and drug–drug interactions. Neuromodulation may offer particular advantages over systemic medications in this population. Spinal cord stimulation and peripheral nerve stimulation have long been utilized in efforts to provide analgesia for various ...
Howard S, Smith, Julie G, Pilitsis
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Cardiac Palliative Medicine

Current Heart Failure Reports, 2017
Heart failure is an illness with high morbidity and mortality that affects 5.7 million Americans. As advanced heart therapies become more prevalent care for patients and families is becoming more complex. The American Heart Association has released a policy statement recommending continuous, high-quality access to palliative care for all patients with ...
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Palliative Medicine in Britain

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2008
In Britain, Palliative Medicine was recognized as a subspecialty of Internal Medicine exactly 20 years after Cicely Saunders founded St Christopher's, at exactly the same time that government was at last recognizing the worth and the needs of general practice.
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Hematology in palliative medicine

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 2004
Advanced cancer and life-limiting chronic nonmalignant diseases are associated with a number of hematological problems. Anemia and coagulation disorders, principally venous thrombosis and thrombocytopenia, are most commonly observed. Patients undergoing chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant have unique problems that include neutropenias and ...
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Perspectives of palliative medicine

Cancer Treatment Reviews, 1996
In this paper, I will look at two questions. The first is whether palliative medicine as we see it so rapidly developing world-wide, and palliative oncology as we discussed it in the recent workshop, will converge, develop along parallel lines (which I need not remind you will never meet) or actually diverge and get further and further apart?
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Pharmacology of palliative medicine

Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 2005
To describe the concepts of both pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and how it applies to palliative medicine.Research and review articles and textbooks.Most patients who have an illness that requires palliation are elderly, have co-morbid conditions, and are on many medications.
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Consultation in Palliative Medicine

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1997
Palliative medicine is an emerging medical discipline in the United States, modeled after similar efforts in Great Britain, Australia, and Canada. Increasingly, academic medical centers are starting clinical programs in palliative medicine including inpatient consultation services.
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Palliative psychosomatic medicine

Therapeutische Umschau, 2001
Die Psychotherapeutische Medizin, das fachärztliche Gebiet, das sich mit den Grundlagen der Psychosomatik beschäftigt, hat sich bisher überwiegend der Diagnostik und Therapie akuter Krankheitsbilder gewidmet. Die Verläufe bei Patienten mit bio-psycho-sozialen Störungen sind jedoch meist chronisch; und der Psychoanalytiker Sigmund Freud, der Begründer ...
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Anticholinergics in Palliative Medicine

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 2012
Anticholinergics, or antimuscarinic drugs, are drugs that competitively inhibit the action of acetylcholine at muscarinic receptors, leading to a blockade of the actions of the parasympathetic nervous system at sites where overactivity can lead to increased symptom burden.
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