Pilot of a pathway to improve the care of imminently dying oncology inpatients in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2005;29(6):544-51. [PMID: 15963862]Luhrs CA, Meghani S, Homel P, et al.: Pilot of a pathway to improve the care of imminently dying oncology ...
Sedation for the relief of re- fractory symptoms in the imminently dying: a fine inten- tional line. Semin Oncol 2005; 32: 237-246.Levy MH, Cohen SD (2005) Sedation for the relief of refractory symptoms in the imminently dying: a fine intentional line. Semin Oncol 32(2):237–246, :...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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
Introduction Evidence suggests that the majority of doctors are not very good at identifying when a patient is dying1 however there is little training available to improve this skill. Even experts are unable to articulate how they recognise when a patient is dying other than by saying that 'I ...
Determining timeframes to death for imminently dying patients: a retrospective cohort studydoi:10.1186/s12904-024-01637-7Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance StatusEnd-of-lifePalliative carePrognosticationTimeframes to death.Clinicians are frequently asked 'how long' questions at end-of-life by patients...
44An evidenced-based heuristics model (or rule of thumb) to improve doctors' intuition about when patients are imminently dying Introduction Evidence suggests that the majority of doctors are not very good at identifying when a patient is dying1 however there is little training avai... N White,...