Palliative care in non-malignant disease

Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 96-99

  Arolker, M S ^a,b   Johnson, M J ^a,b  

^a Yorkshire Deanery   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breathlessness; heart failure; HIV; neurodegenerative; palliative care; renal failure

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; BACLOFEN; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYCLIZINE; FENTANYL; FLUCONAZOLE; FUROSEMIDE; HALOPERIDOL; ISPAGULA; LOPERAMIDE; MACROGOL; METHYLPHENIDATE; METOLAZONE; MIDAZOLAM; MODAFINIL; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYGEN; PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; SPIRONOLACTONE; STEROID; THALIDOMIDE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING EXERCISE; CANDIDIASIS; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONSTIPATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANIC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RELAXATION TRAINING; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESTLESSNESS; REVIEW; SPASTICITY; SPEECH THERAPY; TERMINAL CARE; THERAPY RESISTANCE;

EID: 38649136228     PISSN: 13573039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2007.11.015     Document Type: Review

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