Contrasting approaches to end of life and palliative care in end stage kidney disease

Contrasting approaches to end of life and palliative care in end stage kidney disease

With increased numbers of the elderly, including nursing home patients, being accepted for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) management, there is heightened interest and focus on end of life decisions, advanced care planning and directives, withdrawal from dialysis and palliative care in this setting. Despite this, care at the individual patient level can vary greatly. Here, we present two contra...

legal aspects of end of life and end stage disease

Abstract:  Aims: End of Life (EOL) care providers potentially face by variety of legal and professional dilemma. This study is designed to review and analyze these challenges and approaches to solve them. Materials & Methods:   In this narrative review study, legal aspects of end-of-life care in subjects such as medical assisted dying, decision-making capacity and withdrawal of life-sustaining...

Palliative care and end-stage liver disease.

le Palliative care in end - stage kidney diseasenep

Patients with end-stage kidney disease have significantly increased morbidity and mortality. While greater attention has been focused on advanced care planning, end-of-life decisions, conservative therapy and withdrawal from dialysis these must be supported by adequate palliative care incorporating symptom control. With the increase in the elderly, with their inherent comorbidities, accepted on...

Palliative care in end-stage COPD.

Council Tax website. It is clear from the findings (Table 1) that CTVB locates smokers and could be used to flag those consultations in which discussion of smoking habit would more often be time-effective. Though daunting, it is a simple task to append registration details of patients with the CTVB of their current address using the website. Armed with this information, one knows the likelihood...