This purpose of this article is to promote comprehensive assessment, differential evaluation
and provision of care which optimizes benefit while minimizing burden. Delirium is a …

Context/Objective: Chronic pain following spinal cord injury (SCI) is a prevalent secondary
health condition that significantly impacts quality of life (QoL). Although growing, the number …

La dégradation du corps, les souffrances physiques et psychologiques, le diagnostic de
phase terminale et la mort sont des réalités aujourd'hui très présentes dans nos systèmes …

Palliative care is now part of mainstream health care, but there remains a good deal of
misunderstanding as to what it really is. Many providers hesitate to make referrals to …

The purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of
adult children who were primary caregivers to a parent diagnosed with dementia …

Dying, but not the death, is an essential problem. The more we believe that death ends
everything, the more we fear from death. A human spirit only hardly copes with this fact. All …

Enactments of palliative care entail an excess of dissociated pain and anxiety that conforms
with the unconscious injunction of our liberal individualist society to “Be Well”. In this paper, I …

This chapter broadly summarizes the current state of palliative medicine in the world. It
summarizes the case for a future that rests on a response to three features: the needs of …

Es un estudio descriptivo transversal analítico cuyo objetivo fue analizar el conocimiento del
personal de salud (Médicos) acerca del uso de la vía subcutánea en pacientes en fase …

Descripción: La utilización de la vía subcutánea como uno de los métodos de elección para
cuidados paliativos se ha difundido enormemente en los últimos años, debido al aumento …