There is increased awareness of palliative care needs in people with chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD) or interstitial lung disease (ILD). This European Respiratory …

More recently there has been a growing interest in spirituality in medicine, especially in the
field of palliative care, oncology, intensive care or cardiology. However, according to …

Background: In combination with non-pharmacological interventions, opioids may safely
reduce chronic breathlessness in patients with severe illness. However, implementation in …

Introduction Patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
experience significant symptom burden, leading to poor quality of life. Although guidelines …

Background Respiratory medicine (RM) and palliative care (PC) physicians' management of
chronic breathlessness in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), fibrotic …

Chronic cough — treament in line with guidelines Page 1 www.journals.viamedica.pl/palliative_medicine_in_practice
69 REVIEW ARTICLE Address for correspondence: Iwona Damps-Konstańska Department …

One of the dimensions of growing significance in modern medicine is a holistic approach to
patient care with the recognition of the central place of spirituality in a person's life (1, 2) …

Discontinuation of futile therapy is increasingly discussed in Polish clinical practice. Taking
into account the broadly understood well-being of the patient, it is necessary to consider …

Futile therapy concerns the clinical aspects of the end-of-life period, as well as the
purposefulness of therapy in the context of the quality of life of a patient with an incurable …

Advanced COPD in a patient treated in the Intensive Care Unit Page 1 www.journals.viamedica.pl/palliative_medicine_in_practice
130 Case report Address for correspondence: Urszula Kościuczuk Department of …