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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 ...
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When a loved one discloses that they have breast cancer – or any disease – you naturally want to help. But it’s hard to know how. CNN’s Sara Sidner has these 5 tips.
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]
An informal or primary caregiver is an individual in a cancer patient's life that provides unpaid assistance and cancer-related care. [1] Caregiving is defined as the processing of assisting someone who can't care for themselves, which includes physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. [2]
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 ...
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 ...
Cancer patients commonly experience insomnia or hypersomnia. Sleep disturbances may be caused by sleeping too much during the day, by restless leg syndrome, by pain, by anxiety, or by other medical conditions, like obstructive sleep apnea or menopause. Practicing good sleep hygiene may reduce fatigue by improving sleep quality.