Signs of imminent deathFinal common pathwayDeath and dyingProfessionals who provide any part of end-of-life care must understand something of the physical symptoms that dying patients experience. These patients often fear the symptoms of dying more than......
The purpose of the present study was to examine the differences in symptom experience and care receipt among elderly patients dying at home of lung, liver, gastric, and colon cancer. Methods: The present data were obtained from the Dying Elderly at Home (DEATH) project, a multicenter ...
Background:Cancer is the second leading cause of death in children, after accidents. Little is known, however, about the symptoms and suffering at the end of life in children with cancer. Methods:In 1997 and 1998, we interviewed the parents of children who had died of cancer between 1990 ...
Dying with Cancer: Patients' Function, Symptoms, and Care Preferences as Death Approaches Dying with cancer: patients' function, symptoms, and care preferences as death approaches. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2000; 48(5 suppl 1):S110-21... EP Mccarthy,RS Phillips,Z Zhong,... - 《Journal of the...
They might show outward signs of mental distress. For example, they could: Talk about killing themselves, or seem preoccupied with death or violence Use morealcoholor drugs Act aggressively Seem very anxious or agitated Retreat from family and friends ...
Breast cancer, disease characterized by the growth of malignant cells in the mammary glands. Breast cancer can strike males and females, although women are about 100 times more likely to develop the disease than men. Most cancers in female breasts form s
an outright plan. You might talk an unusual amount about death or say things like, “It'd be better if I weren't here.” But not everyone considering suicide will say so, and not everyone who plans suicide will follow through with it. Every mention of suicide should be taken seriously....
Overall, 11% of veterans reported killing during their deployment. Those who reported killing were more likely to be younger and male than those who did not kill. After controlling for perceived danger, exposure to death and dying, and witnessing killing of fellow soldiers, killing was a ...
A large percentage of patient deaths occur during or shortly after an intensive care unit admission. Death and dying is not a new phenomenon occurring in these units; the very nature of this level of care is that patients are at their sickest and most acute phases of illness. The difference...
of the QT interval, which results in palpitations, arrhythmia, Torsades de Pointes and sudden death. Whereas progesterone shortens the QT interval, seehere,here,here,here,here,here,here,here,hereandhere.These symptoms occur far more frequently in women who naturally have a long QT interval, ...