Higginson I., McCarthy M.: Measuring symptoms in ter- minal cancer: are pain and dyspnoea controlled? J. Roy. Soc. Med., 1989, 82, 264-267.Measuring symptoms in terminal cancer: are pain and dyspnoea controlled? J Roy Soc Med - Higginson, McCarthy - 1989 () Citation Context ...e ...
In cancer patients dying at home in the Netherlands (45% of all cancer patients) euthanasia in about one out of every seven patients indicates unbearable suffering. Symptom prevalence, relationship between intensity of symptoms and unbearable suffering, evolvement of symptoms and unbearability over ...
The purpose of this study was to understand the process of medication management of symptoms in patients with terminal cancer near death in the home from t... Kazanowski,Mary - 《Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing》 被引量: 34发表: 2005年 Primary health care: what should we do for ...
SIGNS OF APPROACHING DEATH This section presents a general description of what is expected when death is near. What actually occurs varies greatly, depending on the cause of death, the person's general health, medications used, and any other significant factors. ...
The symptoms normally are related to abdominal or pelvic pain, low-grade fevers, and increased ileostomy output. The diagnosis may be performed by observing pseudomembranes and stool studies showing toxin-producing organisms [66-68]. Malignant diseases Small bowel cancer is a relative...
Terminal hemorrhage, defined as a major bleeding event which results in death has been reported in 3% of lung cancer patients (Pereira and Phan, 2004). Death typically occurs within a period of time that may be as short as minutes, because of the rapid internal or external loss of ...
The purpose of this study was to understand the process of medication management of symptoms in patients with terminal cancer near death in the home from t... Kazanowski,Mary - 《Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing》 被引量: 34发表: 2005年 End-of-Life Care for Terminal Head and Neck...
The terms “treat”, “treatment”, and the like refer to a means to slow down, relieve, ameliorate or alleviate at least one of the symptoms of the disease, or reverse the disease after its onset. The terms “prevent”, “prevention”, and the like refer to acting prior to overt dise...
650 days of continual cancer treatment. And that’s just the physical body, I can’t even articulate what confronting your impending death on a daily basis does to your mind. Oh, this mind of mine, what we’ve endured together. The close, suffocating horrors of tiny tubes, the scans, ...
All patients included were able to communicate consistently the presence of discomfort associated with thirst or hunger, and were studied until their death. Twenty (63%) of the patients had no symptoms of hunger during the study, and an additional 11 (34%) experienced mild hunger only at the...