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Palliative Emergency General Surgery

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2023
Acute care surgeons encounter patients experiencing surgical emergencies related to advanced malignancy, catastrophic vascular events, or associated with multisystem organ failure. The acute nature is a factor in establishing a relationship between surgeon, patient, and family.
Gregory, Schaefer, Daniel, Regier, Conley, Stout   +2 more
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Palliative surgery for foot drop

Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation, 2022
Dysfunction of the common peroneal nerve is the most common mononeuropathy in the lower limb and a source of significant disability for patients. The nerve can be damaged at various levels for various reasons (direct or indirect trauma, extrinsic compression, anatomical variant, endocrine, rheumatological, or neurological disease). Clinical evidence of
A, Grandjean, T, Lafosse, J, Pierrart, E, Masmejean   +3 more
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Surgery and Palliative Care

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2003
525 THE TERMS “SURGEON” AND “PALLIATIVE CARE” do not often occur in the same sentence. It is a well-accepted, yet obvious overgeneralization that surgeons are the curing and cutting doctors, while primary care physicians provide more caring, than curing.
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Palliative surgery for carcinoma of the pancreas

The American Journal of Surgery, 1971
Abstract A retrospective analysis of 188 patients with carcinoma of the pancreas was performed. One hundred fourteen patients had carcinoma of the head of the pancreas and seventy-four had carcinoma of the body or tail of the pancreas. Except for relief of jaundice and pruritis, little palliation was achieved by the biliary bypass operation in ...
N A, Pope, J C, Fish
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Decision Making in Palliative Surgery

Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2002
Palliative surgery for advanced cancer patients involves complex decision making. Surgeons with a cancer-focused practice were surveyed to determine the extent to which palliative surgery was currently practiced, to identify ethical dilemmas and barriers they faced in performing palliative surgery, and to evaluate their treatment choices in four ...
Laurence E, McCahill, Robert S, Krouse, David Z J, Chu, Gloria, Juarez, Gwen C, Uman, Betty R, Ferrell, Lawrence D, Wagman   +6 more
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Palliative Surgery for Mitral Atresia

Archives of Surgery, 1967
ATRESIA of the mitral valve, often with associated aortic valve atresia or hypoplasia of the aorta, is an uncommon congenital cardiac defect that leads to death in early infancy. In her classic monograph, Maude Abbott 1 reported that five specimens were encountered in 1,000 postmortem examinations of patients with congenital heart disease.
S F, Redo, M A, Engle, K H, Ehlers, P B, Farnsworth   +3 more
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Palliative surgery for gastric cancer

Cancer, 1988
Most patients with gastric carcinoma have a disease that is too advanced for radical surgery. A Review was made of 13,175 cases of gastric carcinoma registered at the Birmingham Cancer Registry during the period of 1960-1969. Of the patients, 79.6% had disease that was not radically resected, and few of these patients survived to 2 years. Those who had
M T, Hallissey, W H, Allum, C, Roginski, J W, Fielding   +3 more
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Palliative Care and Geriatric Surgery

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2019
Although many seniors cite maintaining independence and a desire to die at home as health priorities, admission to the ICU and the use of invasive procedures are common near the end of life. Palliative care aims to relieve pain and other symptoms to maintain the highest quality of life for the longest period of time, but surgical patients are less ...
Jessica H, Ballou, Karen J, Brasel
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Palliative Care and Pediatric Surgery

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2011
Pediatric surgeons can play an important role in offering procedures that may improve the quality of life for terminally ill children. As with all palliative interventions, surgical therapies should be evaluated in the context of explicitly defined treatment goals while weighing the risks and benefits of procedures in the context of a shortened life ...
Julia, Shelton, Gretchen Purcell, Jackson   +1 more
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Palliative Cardiac Surgery in the Infant

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1975
With the growing enthusiasm for total repair with hypothermia or cardiopulmonary bypass in infants, it would be wise to keep clearly in mind the purpose of all cardiac care in infants – to keep them alive, healthy, and active, either by repairing their defect or by improving them with a low risk procedure, so that the infants will be alive when their ...
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