Is this a bad day, or one of the last days? How to recognize and respond to approaching demise

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 195, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 879-887

  Dunn, Geoffrey P ^a,c   Milch, Robert A ^b  

^a Great Lakes Home Health Care   (United States)

^b Center for Hospice and Palliative Care   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DIAZEPAM; DIURETIC AGENT; HALOPERIDOL; HYDROMORPHONE; LORAZEPAM; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE; PROKINETIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; DELIRIUM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; DYSPNEA; FAMILY COUNSELING; HEART DISEASE; HOSPICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANCREAS CANCER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TERMINAL CARE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0036903058     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(02)01602-2     Document Type: Article

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