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A Review on Palliative Care Challenges and Benefits [PDF]
Palliative care is a treatment strategy that aims to improve the quality of life of patients suffering from various serious illnesses. Palliative care is provided to these patients by experts from multidisciplinary fields utilising a holistic approach ...
Amit Agrawal +3 more
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Primary Terminal Haemochromatosis in a 50 Year-Old Patient
Aim. A clinical description of end-stage hereditary haemochromatosis manifested with chronic alcohol abuse.Key points. A 50-yo patient referred with marked general weakness as a major complaint.
M. I. Gonik +7 more
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Palliative sedation: treatment of terminally ill patients. A case report and brief literature review
Patients suffering from terminal oncological diseases come to present varying symptoms secondary to the extent of the disease that can be difficult to control, causing them to suffer in the final stage of life.
Teresa A. Nava-Obregón +5 more
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Integration of palliative care to the emergency department. Management algorithm approach
Regarding medical emergencies, physicians exclusively deal with seriously ill patients suffering from advanced, progressive, and chronic diseases, where the diagnostic and therapeutic approach becomes simultaneous.
Eduardo D. Anica-Malagón +4 more
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Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units (INAPPT-ICU): Point Prevalence Study
Objective: Technological advances increased prolonged life expectancy of the terminal patients, who had end-stage diseases. End-of-life care in intensive care units (ICU) has increased with the rise in admissions of terminal patients to ICU.
Elif Erdoğan Öngel +12 more
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Plasma N-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide as Prognostic Marker in Fatal Cardial Decompensation with Sunitinib Malate Therapy [PDF]
A 74-year-old man with metastatic renal cell carcinoma and a history of cardiac failure was treated with sunitinib malate. MUGA echocardiography could not detect a relevant change in the ejection fraction although the clinical situation of the patient ...
Haseke, Nicolas +4 more
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NECESIDADES DEL CUIDADOR DEL ENFERMO DE ALZHEIMER TERMINAL.
La enfermedad de Alzheimer es la primera causa de demencia en la población occidental. Su carácter invalidante delega asistencia permanente desde los estadios moderados de la enfermedad por lo que la dependencia de cuidados constituye su principal ...
S. Sánchez Cánovas, R. Mears Baño
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Background Terminal deletion of chromosome 10p is a rare chromosomal abnormality. We report a neonatal case with a large deletion of 10p15.3p13 diagnosed early because of severe clinical manifestations.
Qiao-Yan Shao +5 more
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End-stage head and neck cancer: coping mechanism [PDF]
Coping mechanisms are patients’ means of adapting to stressful situations and involve psychological and physical changes in behavior. Patients adapt to head and neck cancer in a variety of ways.
Berteşteanu, Serban V.G. +3 more
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