The seventh volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, Care of the Imminently Dying provides an overview of symptom management when a patient is reaching the end of their life. This volume covers delirium and the advantages of early diagnosis, determining the presence of dyspnea, death...
Sedation for the relief of refractory symptoms in the imminently dying: a fine intentional line. Pilot of a pathway to improve the care of imminently dying oncology inpatients in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Improving the quality of care delivered to people imminently dying in hospital by im...
Nurses are at the forefront of this care, caring for dying patients, and 'managing' the dead body, and dealing with the corporeal, emotional and relational dimensions of death. Little is known about their prior or early professional experiences of and reactions to death, dying and the corpse ...
Sedation is a clinically important therapeutic intervention in the imminently dying patient. As the patient with an advanced, irreversible illness nears the end of life, symptoms accumulate that are progressively more difficult to manage and that may become refractory to standard medical interventions. ...
First, the appropriate use of sedation in the imminently dying (a term preferable to terminal sedation) implies that the clinician has completed a comprehensive assessment, understands the nature of the problems causing refractory suffering, and has a strong working knowledge of the range of...
Define imminently. imminently synonyms, imminently pronunciation, imminently translation, English dictionary definition of imminently. adj. About to occur; impending: in imminent danger. im′mi·nent·ly adv. im′mi·nent·ness n. American Heritage® D
The national consensus project and national quality forum preferred practices in care of the imminently dying: implications for nursing. J Hospice Pal- liat Nurs. 2007;9(6):316-322.Hultman T, Reder EA, Dahlin CM. Improving psychological and ...
Nontherapeutic research with imminently dying and recently deceased study populations: addressing practical and ethical challengesdeathethical reviewethics researchguidelinesrisk assessmentdoi:10.1007/s12630-023-02414-5Nicholas B.,MurphyCharles,WeijerSaptharishi,Lalgudi Ganesan...
The purpose of this study was to determine if the presence of volunteer sitters for the imminently dying long-term care patient would influence caregivers' perception of end-of-life care. Limited literature was found that explored the intervention of providing a caring, human presence to patients ...
From the Department of Neurology (J.A.R.), Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA