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Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [1] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders.
[14] [15] GTCSs can happen in people of all ages. [15] GTCSs are very hazardous, and they increase the risk of injuries and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). [16] SUDEP is a sudden, unexpected, nontraumatic death in patients with epilepsy. [16] Strong convulsions that are related to GTCSs can also cause falls and severe injuries. [16]
Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer, dementia, advanced heart disease, and for HIV/AIDS, or long COVID in bad cases, rather than for injury.
Opponents of the assisted dying bill think this service needs to be better funded if terminally ill people are to make a genuine choice between dying naturally or choosing to die earlier.
Whether inflammation is present in the body before or after a cancer diagnosis, it affects all life stages of cancer—part of what Ravella calls the “tumor microenvironment” — “from the ...
A new study investigated 30 cancer types in men and found that the number of cancer cases and deaths is likely to increase significantly by 2050. The researchers project an 84% increase in male ...
In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...
Cancer related to one's occupation is believed to represent between 2–20% of all cases. [17] Most cancer deaths caused by occupational risk factors occur in the developed world. [16] Job stress does not appear to be a significant factor at least in lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancers. [18]