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Defining the principles of palliative care in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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The World Health Association defines palliative care as a medical discipline that aims to improve the quality of life of the patient and caregiver/family faced with an incurable and potentially life-threatening illness. Palliative care relieves pain and other distressing symptoms, affirms life while regarding death as a normal and life fulfilling process; neither hastens nor postpones death; in...
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Patients in the advanced stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis often are faced with the dilemma of whether to use or continue to use mechanical ventilation. Patients who elect to terminate ventilatory support may be subject to significant and even extreme respiratory symptoms. Severe dyspnea and other symptoms are sometimes treated with palliative sedation, which is generally recommended as a...
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BACKGROUND Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a relentlessly progressive neurodegenerative condition. Optimal management requires a palliative approach from diagnosis with emphasis on patient autonomy, dignity and quality of life. OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic analysis of the type, level and timing of specialist palliative care intervention in ALS. RESULTS Despite an international c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.115808