Palliative Care Plays Important Role in Wound Care

Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

Chronic wound pain and palliative cancer care.

a role in palliative care ?

Psychedelic drugs are agents that may assist a person in approaching existential issues. They enjoy a rich history in ancient, non-Western cultures and, more recently, in psychiatric research of the 1960s. After a 40-year hiatus, international trials are now underway to revisit the role of psychedelic drugs in assisting patients with terminal cancer to explore – and resolve – anxiety-inducing e...

Palliative wound care management strategies for palliative patients and their circles of care.

PURPOSE To provide information about palliative wound care management strategies for palliative patients and their circles of care. TARGET AUDIENCE This continuing education activity is intended for physicians and nurses with an interest in skin and wound care. OBJECTIVES After participating in this educational activity, the participant should be better able to: 1. Recognize study findings,...

Palliative wound care: managing chronic wounds across life's continuum: a consensus statement from the International Palliative Wound Care Initiative.

W individuals of all ages (from neonates to elders) and all socioeconomic groups develop chronic wounds (i.e., a break or chronic ulcer of the skin and underlying tissue that does not respond to medical or surgical interventions). This is particularly true for people living with advanced/end-stage chronic illnesses associated with arterial or venous insufficiency/ edema (e.g., diabetes mellitus...