Providing Palliative Care for a Dying Teen at Home: Perspectives and Challenges

Autor: Malathi Nayak, Naveen Salins
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2011
Předmět:
Pamidronate
Case Report
Community
Hematological malignancies
WHO pain ladder
Noncancer
Squamous cell carcinoma
Painful bone metastasis
Cancer pain
Cancer
Professional behavior
lcsh:R5-920
Doctors
Bisphosphonates
Dysphagia
Blood-related cancers
Adolescence
Informal caregiver
Journal reporting
Psychosocial issues
Speech language pathologists
Ibandronate
Palliative care
Hypofractionation
lcsh:Medicine (General)
Skeletal-related events
Terminally ill
Quality of life
Pain assessment
Professional psychology
Saudi Arabia
Pain
India
Disfigurement
Publication trend
Peripheral arterial disease
Speech deficits
Zoledronic acid
Acrometastasis
Palliative
Hemostasis
Undertreatment of cancer pain
Radiotherapy
Euthanasia
Evidence-based pediatric palliative care
Research
Sickle cell disease
Desmoid fibromatosis
Tamoxifen
Attitudes
Opioid analgesics
Buccal mucosa
Nursing education
Neuropathic
Needs
Zdroj: Indian Journal of Palliative Care
Indian Journal of Palliative Care, Vol 17, Iss 3, Pp 248-250 (2011)
ISSN: 1998-3735
0973-1075
Popis: Adolescents and young adults with cancer are a heterogeneous group. Management of this special group requires a broad-based interdisciplinary clinical team, which should include palliative care (PC), psychology, social work, oncology, and nursing representatives. The function of PC is to provide impeccable pain and other symptom control and to coordinate care as the disease progresses. The cure rate of cancer in adolescents is high but between 10% and 40% of them will develop incurable disease depending on tumor type and prognostic factors. PC in adolescents should also take care of the specific physical and psychosocial developmental changes in this age group. A 16-year old boy suffered with incurable disease and team has provided the PC at the door step taken as a case study.
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