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Palliative Sedation in Terminally Ill Patients

2004
Lamentably, the process of dying can be a time of considerable suffering and trepidation, engendering fear, loneliness, anxiety, and distress from intractable physical and existential anguish. Such concerns can be insufferable and abolish the hope of a tranquil and “dignified” death, and instead, foment a desire for physician-assisted death.
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Serenity for a Terminally Ill Patient

The American Journal of Nursing, 1966
At 59, Mrs. C. was terminally ill. She lay in the hospital near death. A year and a half before her present hospitalization, Mrs. C. had been found to have an adenocarcinoma of the colon. An abdominal perineal resection was performed and a colostomy done, and Mrs. C. seemed to have been doing well. At first, she said, she had thought she would never be
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE OF THE TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2000
This article discusses sedation, the assessment and management of physical symptoms, and symptom-assessment scales for the terminally ill patient. The evaluation of the ability of the family or community to care for a terminally ill patient in pain also is discussed.
S, O'Mahony, N, Coyle, R, Payne
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Palliative Sedation for the Terminally Ill Patient

CNS Drugs, 2018
Palliative sedation (PS) is performed in the terminally ill patient to manage one or more refractory symptoms. Proportional PS, which means that drugs can be titrated to the minimum effective dose, is the form most widely used. From a quarter to a third of all terminally ill patients undergo PS, with a quarter of these requiring continuous deep ...
Garetto F., Cancelli F., Rossi R., Maltoni M.   +3 more
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Remote psychotherapy for terminally ill cancer patients

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2005
We conducted a feasibility study of remote psychotherapy in 10 terminally ill cancer patients with diagnoses of adjustment disorder or major depression. Subjects received six sessions of individual cognitive therapy with the same therapist. Sessions alternated between face-to-face sessions and remote sessions delivered by analogue videophone.
Jeffrey S, Cluver, Dean, Schuyler, B Christopher, Frueh, Frank, Brescia, George W, Arana   +4 more
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Living with a terminal illness: patients’ priorities

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2004
Background.  Our understanding of terminal illness and its consequences has been predominantly based on models derived from expert definition, rather than the patient's perspective. More recently, quality of life tools have been developed to enable patient choice in responses.
Carter, Helen, McLeod, Rod, Brander, Penny, McPherson, Kath   +3 more
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Issues in psychotherapy with terminally ill patients

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2004
Psychotherapy with the terminally ill poses special challenges for clinicians and in return offers unique rewards. As a time limited therapy, acceptance, rather than change is a primary goal; yet, patients can be strongly motivated to change. Patients may need to struggle with how to disengage while also maintaining connection.
S Tziporah, Cohen, Susan, Block
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Pain in Terminally Ill Patients

CNS Drugs, 2003
Successful pharmacological treatment of pain in terminally ill patients is possible most of the time. It requires a determination of the type of pain syndrome (i.e. nociceptive, neuropathic or mixed). Complete pain assessment also requires an understanding of other dimensions of suffering that a patient may be experiencing on psychological, social and ...
Jay R, Thomas, Charles F, von Gunten
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Caring for Terminally Ill Patients

2017
This chapter identifies early uses of the term “palliative cure” in the late Middle Ages already and describes its growing usage from the sixteenth century onwards. It studies the contemporary meanings of the term “palliative”, which also carried connotations of “merely” covering up the symptoms rather than providing a true, radical cure, and it traces
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Research in Terminally Ill Patients

2018
It is important to conduct quality palliative care research so as to improve care in this distressed population. However, research in palliative care is challenging due to the high symptom burden and issues related to it, including poor accrual, and higher dropout rates compared to those of patients with chronic disease states.
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