Palliative ultrasound for home care hospice patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 293-296

  Mariani, Peter J ^a   Setla, Judith A ^b  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b Laboratory Alliance of Central New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascites; Home care; Hospice; Palliative care; Paracentesis; Ultrasound guided procedures

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; DEXAMETHASONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; OXYCODONE; PROCHLORPERAZINE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ASCITES; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; COLON CANCER; COUGHING; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCUSED ASSESSMENT BY SONOGRAPHY FOR TRAUMA; HOME CARE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPICE PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANCREAS CANCER; PARACENTESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCITES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PARACENTESIS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SELECTION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77951108622     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00678.x     Document Type: Review

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