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Palliative Care

Palliative Care

May Hua
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781466686038|ISBN10: 1466686030|EISBN13: 9781466686045
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8603-8.ch005
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Hua, May. "Palliative Care." Modern Concepts and Practices in Cardiothoracic Critical Care, edited by Adam S. Evans, et al., IGI Global, 2015, pp. 105-123. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8603-8.ch005

APA

Hua, M. (2015). Palliative Care. In A. Evans, G. Kerr, I. Chung, & R. Varghese (Eds.), Modern Concepts and Practices in Cardiothoracic Critical Care (pp. 105-123). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8603-8.ch005

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Hua, May. "Palliative Care." In Modern Concepts and Practices in Cardiothoracic Critical Care, edited by Adam S. Evans, et al., 105-123. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8603-8.ch005

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Abstract

Palliative care is a specialty of medicine that focuses on improving quality of life for patients with serious illness and their families. As the limitations of intensive care and the long-term sequelae of critical illness continue to be delimited, the role of palliative care for patients that are unable to achieve their original goals of care, as well as for survivors of critical illness, is changing and expanding. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce readers to the specialty of palliative care and its potential benefits for critically ill patients, and to present some of the issues related to the delivery of palliative care in surgical units.

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