Year 2024 / Volume 31 / Number 3

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Objective: To identify how often patients’ spiritual needs are recorded in the Unique Referral Document (DUD) to a Palliative Care Unit.
Material and Methods: Retrospective longitudinal descriptive study. The DUDs in a Palliative Care Unit from 2019, 2020, and 2022 were reviewed, considering the record of spiritual and psychosocial needs, along with other variables from the medical...

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Introduction: Patients with palliative needs can be more prompt to medication errors, due to several factors such as the presence of polypharmacy, complex drug regimens, advanced age, and the presence of associated comorbidities.
Objective: Analyze the factors related to the presence of medication errors with opioids, in patients with advanced chronic disease and palliative needs...

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Introduction: The palliative sedation at home is a management alternative in the control of refractory symptoms of people in end-of-life, reducing the suffering of the sick person and his/her family.
Materials and methods: It’s a quantitative, descriptive, number of cases study, based on the review of clinical records of patients who received subcutaneous palliative sedation treatment...

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Introduction: Advanced heart failure (AHF) poses a major challenge in palliative care due to its heterogeneous course, prognostic uncertainty, and high symptom burden. This study compares AHF patients with oncological (PO) and other non-oncological (ONPO) patients admitted to a Medium-Stay Palliative Care Unit (UCPME).
Materials and methods: A retrospective study of 400 patients...

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Super refractory status epilepticus (SRSE) is a life-threatening clinical entity that impacts the quality of life of patients and their families. The available evidence for the treatment of SRSE in pediatric palliative care is scarce, especially in the end-of-life patient. As palliative therapy, Midazolam may be an insufficient pharmacological management for the control of SRSE, generating...

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Managing difficult-to-control pain in patients with cervical cancer represents a major challenge for the palliative care team, combined with limited social factors and suffering; having a clinical tool such as plasticine human figures favors expression and an appropriate therapeutic approach.

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