Maximal medical therapy and palliative care can work together: When are advanced care measures appropriate?

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 453-456

  Swetz, Keith M ^a   Lyckholm, Laurie J ^a   Smith, Thomas J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; DILTIAZEM; ESMOLOL; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CARDIOVERSION; CAROTID SINUS MASSAGE; CASE REPORT; DIAPHORESIS; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGITIS; FLUID THERAPY; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RESUSCITATION; STOMATITIS; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA; TELEMETRY; TONSIL CANCER; VALSALVA MANEUVER; WEAKNESS;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70449701539     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.467     Document Type: Article

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