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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 ...
A former flight attendant with terminal cancer has lived out her dying “last wish” of taking flight one last time.. Janet McAnnally, a 79-year-old hospice patient living in California, was ...
A death rattle is noisy breathing that often occurs in someone near death. [1] Accumulation of fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions in the throat and upper airways is the cause. [ 2 ] Those who are dying may lose their ability to swallow and may have increased production of bronchial secretions, resulting in such an accumulation. [ 3 ]
Now, she wrote, the doctor's words are "replaying" in her head: “I hope you have a good support system at home because you’re going to need it, you have a long and hard journey ahead of you.”
Some don't want to be identified solely as a cancer patient. “So many of my patients say people talk to them with a different tone of voice,” Smith said. ... “As hard as it is to explain to ...
Coping with impending death is a hard topic to digest universally. Patients may experience grief, fear, loneliness, depression, and anxiety among many other possible responses. Terminal illness can also lend patients to become more prone to psychological illness such as depression and anxiety disorders. Insomnia is a common symptom of these. [3]
The 79-year-old woman was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer
The act of killing by removing a person's head, usually with an axe or other bladed instrument A much-favoured method of execution used around the world. Notable examples include the French Revolution via guillotine, and the Tudor times using an axe. Deleted Murdered Literary Defenestration: The act of killing by throwing a person out of a window