Advance care planning in cystic fibrosis: Current practices, challenges, and opportunities

Islamic Project Financing in Pakistan: Current Challenges and Opportunities Ahead

This study is related to an Islamic project financing with a major focus on investigating the role of Islamic finance in financing infrastructural development projects (toll roads, power plants, airports, and plants, as well as natural resource exploitation projects, such as hydroelectric dams, mining projects, oil and gas assets, and paper mills), especially in the context of Pakistan. Infrast...

Cystic fibrosis: current trends in respiratory care.

Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease that typically produces malnutrition and chronic respiratory infections. Prolonged bronchial obstruction, infection, and inflammation result in bronchiectstasis and permanent lung damage. Most cystic fibrosis patients die because of this progressive respiratory disease. Thus, in the absence of a cure, effective respiratory therapy is the primary means to ext...

Advance care planning for people with dementia: benefits and challenges.

Advance care planning (ACP) is a process being championed within health and social care, particularly since the publication of the UK Department of Health's 2008 End of Life Care Strategy. However, its implementation in dementia care is yet to be fully realised and can pose significant ethical and legal dilemmas for the generic and specialist workforce, the patient themselves, and their family ...

Cystic fibrosis: current concepts.

Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas, the most frequently inherited disease affecting the Caucasian population, is an autosomal recessive disorder affecting principally the exocrine glands. It is of interest that despite the steadily increasing number of cellular and biochemical abnormalities reported in the disease even the most intrepid investigator has stopped short (sometimes only just) of staki...

Advance care planning in primary care.