obstruction Constipation Anorexia Weight loss Weakness and fatigue Acute confusion and delirium Terminal restlessness Supportive care Advance care planning Loss Anxiety & depression Changing circumstances The family/support network What needs to be done when the patient dies What is Advanced Care Planning?
Cancer genomic panels are available commercially [51], [52] and offer important benefits to patient and providers, compared with traditional single-gene/single-syndrome tests, for example, faster testing, more comprehensive genetic picture, avoidance of patient’s testing fatigue, and others [57], ...
The notion that withholding nutrition support contributes to pain and suffering has also been debated. Positron emission tomography scans have demonstrated that when a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, the brain areas responsible for pain perception do not function.4 Therefore, providing nutr...
Not surprisingly, appropriate implementation of PSA screening is a highly debated subject. Although it is now recognized to have many limitations, the use of PSA has contributed to a paradigm for the value of protein biomarkers in detecting disease. The main weakness of the PSA assay is in its...
Many factors contribute to instrument fracture, and these have been associated with torsion stress or flexural fatigue [1]. The prevention of file separation has been widely investigated and is based on inspection of the file (notably of the winding of the flutes) or curvature management, which ...
A recent study of the impact of DBS on MDD patients’ autonomy showed that, by possibly reducing disabling symptoms such as anhedonia and fatigue, DBS could increase autonomy rather than threaten it [85]. The role of anhedonia and fatigue, their possible interaction, and their effect on patient...