Profile of the palliative care physician in Brazil

Physician-assisted death is not palliative care.

Nurses' Experiences of Palliative Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Background & purpose: Despite recent advances in infant care technology, a number of infants are at risk in infancy period and need to palliative care. Nurses are responsible for the palliative care of the infants and the families. Therefore, the present study was conducted to explain the Nurses' Experiences of Palliative Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Materials and Methods: This st...

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...

[Physician-assisted suicide is not a failure of palliative care].

I want to die.” That was how I received my first request for assisted suicide. Jean was a single, 50-year-old woman with advanced cancer. She had just been told that she could not receive any more chemotherapy, and a palliative treatment plan was recommended. “I watched my mother dying and I don’t want to go through that. Sitting in a wheelchair is death to me,” she asserted. I was in the sixth...

Challenges of Palliative Care at Home in Brazil: A Reflection

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com shortage of PC trained health professionals working in HC, the need to break the paradigm of death at home, the challenges of teamwork in this care modality, and the difficulties in accessing of essential drugs to control the symptoms are other factors that contribute to the complexity of this discussion in the private financing health system in Bra...