This booklet has been written to tell you: ●More about dementia. ●What it is like for someone at home. ●How to ease the problems of day-to-day care. ●About the help available to carers. Dementia is a distressing condition and a lot of what follows in this booklet may be painful to you. But the booklet [...]
Study findings suggest that unrelieved and distressing symptoms are present for the majority of intensive care unit patients, including those with delirium. Symptom assessment in high-risk intensive care unit patients may lead to more focused interventions to avoid or minimize unnecessary suffering. (Crit Care Med 2010; 38:000–000) DESCARGAR PDF
Evidence-based guidelines for the management of persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were prepared by an expert panel of the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. These updated guidelines replace those published in 2004. The guidelines are intended for use by health care providers who care for HIV-infected patients or [...]
En este artículo se presentan los principales documentos y Cartas sobre los derechos de los pacientes pediátricos. El aspecto nuclear gira en torno al derecho a la educación del niño y del adolescente enfermos u hospitalizados. Se parte de la experiencia de la Organización Europea de Pedagogos Hospitalarios y del ejemplo concreto de España como vía para mostrar [...]
Palliative care for disabled children and young people embraces holistic, high quality, evidence-based care, recognition and timely management of symptoms, recognition and discussion with the multidisciplinary team and with families about the possibility of dying and care and support through life, death and bereavement. Systems are being piloted across the UK to collect data about who and where children [...]
En " Acompañamiento en el duelo y Medicina Paliativa", editado por Sociedad Vasca de Cuidados Paliativos y Paliativos Sin Fronteras,San Sebastián, 2007. DESCARGAR PDF
En toda demanda de eutanasia o suicidio asistido subyace un aspecto al que no siempre se dedica la atención ni la investigación que merece: el sufrimiento que experimentan las personas que se enfrentan a un daño irreversible importante o a la proximidad de la muerte. El concepto de sufrimiento, más amplio que el de dolor, tiene relación con la percepción de [...]
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Cuerpo específico de conocimiento, capacidad de autoregulación, códico de Deontología y vocación de servicio DESCARGAR PDF
