Butler, Ashleigh E Riegel, Melissa Speedie, Lisa Ranse, Kristen Buckley, Thomas
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Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses
Bereavement support is a vital part of caring for families when a patient dies in the intensive care unit (ICU). Previous research has demonstrated that while many ICUs provide some informal aspects of bereavement care, formalised follow-up programmes are uncommon. The impacts of COVID-19 on ICU-based bereavement support are currently unknown. The ...
De Simone, Belinda Chouillard, Elie Podda, Mauro Pararas, Nikolaos de Carvalho Duarte, Gustavo Fugazzola, Paola Birindelli, Arianna Coccolini, Federico Polistena, Andrea Sibilla, Maria
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BACKGROUND: The trauma mortality rate is higher in the elderly compared with younger patients. Ageing is associated with physiological changes in multiple systems and correlated with frailty. Frailty is a risk factor for mortality in elderly trauma patients. We aim to provide evidence-based guidelines for the management of geriatric trauma patients...
Mahmoud, Abdelfattah Oubaha, Hamid Fkhar, Lahcen Cloots, Rudi Boschini, Frédéric
Li-ion batteries (LIBs) are the primary choice in the e-mobility application and their demand is expected to accelerate significantly in the coming years. However, the scarcity of critical raw materials in batteries highlights the challenge of meeting material demands. Consequently, recycling emerges as a vital strategy to recover and reuse these m...
Quesne, Aloïse
L’animal, dont la présence contribue à réduire la douleuret l’anxiété, a fait son entrée dans les Unités de soinspalliatifs ces dernières années. Si elles ne bénéficientd’aucun cadre juridique, la médiation animale et lavisite des animaux de compagnie in extremis s’avèrent unprécieux réconfort pour les patients durant cette délicatepériode qui préc...
Cayol, Amandine
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Vérin, M. Tir, M. Ory, F. Mesnage, V. Verny, M. Auffret, M. Béreau, M. Giffard, M. Defebvre, L.
As in many chronic and degenerative pathologies, the end of life constitutes an essential issue in Parkinson's disease. Many health professionals, neurologists or not, are faced with this problem. In this article, we offer a sharing of points of view from experts from different fields of neurology, pharmacy, geriatrics and palliative care. During t...
Poppe, Christopher Elger, Bernice S
Published in
Journal of bioethical inquiry
In the future, policies surrounding end-of-life decisions will be faced with the question of whether competent people in a completely locked-in state should be enabled to make end-of-life decisions via brain-computer interfaces (BCI). This article raises ethical issues with acting through BCIs in the context of these decisions, specifically self-ad...
Yin, Yue Peng, Qian Ma, Longhao Dong, Yi Sun, Yinan Xu, Silu Ding, Nianyang Liu, Xiaolin Zhao, Mingye Tang, Yaqian
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Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation
Quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) is a dominant measurement of health gain in economic evaluations for pricing drugs. However, end-of-life (EoL) patients' preference for QALY gains in life expectancy (LE) and quality of life (QoL) during different disease stages remains unknown and is seldom involved in decision-making. This study aims to measure p...
Rodrigues, Paulo; Ostyn, Jozefien; Mroz, Sarah; Ronse, Axelle; Menten, Johan; 43265; Gastmans, Chris; 1629;
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the content and process of decision-making about palliative sedation for existential suffering (PS-ES) as perceived by Belgian palliative care physicians. METHODS: This Belgian nationwide qualitative study follows a grounded theory approach. We conducted semistructured interviews w...
Ostan, Rita Varani, Silvia Pannuti, Francesco Pannuti, Raffaella Biasco, Guido Bruera, Eduardo
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Palliative & supportive care
Timely, effective and personalized identification of the multidimensional needs in patients with advanced cancer are major goals of appropriate palliative care (PC) delivery. However, there is considerable variation in structures, processes, and patient demographics that might influence the intensity of end-of-life care. This study aims to characte...
