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Palliative care in pulmonary medicine / Cuidados paliativos em pneumologia
Hospital das ClínicasOliveira, Ellen Pierre de; Medeiros Junior, Pedro.
  • Hospital das ClínicasOliveira, Ellen Pierre de; Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Medicina. Hospital das ClínicasOliveira, Ellen Pierre de. São Paulo. BR
  • Medeiros Junior, Pedro; A.C. Camargo Cancer Center. São Paulo. BR
J. bras. pneumol ; 46(3): e20190280, 2020. tab, graf
Article in English | LILACS | ID: biblio-1134867
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT Palliative care was initially developed for patients with advanced cancer. The concept has evolved and now encompasses any life-threatening chronic disease. Studies carried out to compare end-of-life symptoms have shown that although symptoms such as pain and dyspnea are as prevalent in patients with lung disease as in patients with cancer, the former receive less palliative treatment than do the latter. There is a need to refute the idea that palliative care should be adopted only when curative treatment is no longer possible. Palliative care should be provided in conjunction with curative treatment at the time of diagnosis, by means of a joint decision-making process; that is, the patient and the physician should work together to plan the therapy, seeking to improve quality of life while reducing physical, psychological, and spiritual suffering.
RESUMO
RESUMO Inicialmente os cuidados paliativos foram desenvolvidos para pacientes com câncer avançado. Hoje este conceito evoluiu e engloba qualquer doença crônica que ameace a vida. Estudos realizados para comparar os sintomas de fim de vida mostraram que os pacientes pneumológicos apresentavam a mesma prevalência de sintomas, como dor e dispneia, porém recebiam menos tratamento paliativo que os pacientes oncológicos. É preciso desmitificar a ideia de que cuidados paliativos só devem ser adotados quando não há mais possibilidade de tratamento curativo. O cuidado paliativo deve ser associado ao tratamento curativo no momento do diagnóstico, por meio de decisão compartilhada, isto é, paciente e médico planejam as decisões sobre a terapêutica a ser tomada, buscam a melhora na qualidade de vida e a redução do sofrimento, tanto espiritual como físico e psicológico.
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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Palliative Care / Pulmonary Medicine / Dyspnea / Lung Diseases Type of study: Risk factors Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: J. bras. pneumol Journal subject: Pulmonary Disease (Specialty) Year: 2020 Type: Article Affiliation country: Brazil Institution/Affiliation country: A.C. Camargo Cancer Center/BR / Universidade de São Paulo/BR

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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Palliative Care / Pulmonary Medicine / Dyspnea / Lung Diseases Type of study: Risk factors Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: J. bras. pneumol Journal subject: Pulmonary Disease (Specialty) Year: 2020 Type: Article Affiliation country: Brazil Institution/Affiliation country: A.C. Camargo Cancer Center/BR / Universidade de São Paulo/BR