An official American Thoracic Society clinical policy statement: palliative care for patients with respiratory diseases and critical illnesses.

Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Illnesses: New Clinical Guidelines Endorse Palliative and Hospice Care

✓ End-of-Life Care ‘Fast Facts’ Updated, Expanded to 204 Titles The statement endorses hospice as “an appropriate multidisciplinary system” and defines hospice care as “the support and care for patients and their families in the last phase of an incurable disease...so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible.” The American Thoracic Society (ATS) has issued an official clinical po...

An official research policy statement of the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society: standards for quantitative assessment of lung structure.

مراقبت تسکینی مبتنی بر منزل: حلقه گم شده مراقبت از بیماران در ایران

The World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced palliative care as a way to improve the quality of life of patients with incurable diseases and their families. This care begins with the diagnosis of the disease, and continues throughout the illness (1). Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients with life-threatening diseases and their families. Its purpose is to relieve suffer...

An official American Thoracic Society/International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation/Society of Critical Care Medicine/Association of Organ and Procurement Organizations/United Network of Organ Sharing Statement: ethical and policy considerations in organ donation after circulatory determination of death.

RATIONALE Donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD) has the potential to increase the number of organs available for transplantation. Because consent and management of potential donors must occur before death, DCDD raises unique ethical and policy issues. OBJECTIVES To develop an ethics and health policy statement on adult and pediatric DCDD relevant to critical care and transp...

An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Policy Statement: Enhancing Implementation, Use, and Delivery of Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

RATIONALE Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has demonstrated physiological, symptom-reducing, psychosocial, and health economic benefits for patients with chronic respiratory diseases, yet it is underutilized worldwide. Insufficient funding, resources, and reimbursement; lack of healthcare professional, payer, and patient awareness and knowledge; and additional patient-related barriers all contribu...