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Palliative care in intensive care units: Why, where, what, who, when, how
2018
Palliative care is patient and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering when “curative” therapies are futile. In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), critically ill patients receive life-sustaining therapies with the goal of restoring or maintaining organ function. Palliative Care in the ICU is a widely discussed topic and it is increasingly applied in clinics. It encompasses symptoms control and end-of-life management, communication with relatives and setting goals of care ensuring dignity in death and decision-making power. However, effective application of Palliative Care in ICU presupposes specific knowledge and training which ane…
IAGG/IAGG GARN International Survey of End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes
2017
Item does not contain fulltext This article reports the findings of a survey on end-of-life (EOL) care in nursing homes of 18 long-term care experts across 15 countries. The experts were chosen as a convenience-based sample of known experts in each country. The survey was administered in 2016 and included both open-ended responses for defining hospice care, palliative care, and "end of life," and a series of questions related to the following areas-attitudes toward EOL care, current practice and EOL interventions, structure of care, and routine barriers. Overall experts strongly agreed that hospice and palliative care should be available in long-term care facilities and that both are define…
The anesthesiologist and end-of-life care
2012
Purpose of review Anesthesiologists may face problematic situations when patients are close to death, in which clinical problems, decision-making processes, and ethical issues are often interconnected and dependent on each of them. The aim of this review is to assess the recent literature regarding the anesthesiological role for advanced cancer patients. Recent findings Palliative sedation in the dying patients, end-of-life problems in the ICU, and pain control in advanced cancer patients have been the subject of recent research. All these issues have shown that anesthesiologist would be expert in the field of pain and symptom control at the end of life. End-of-life care problems are common…