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Palliative Wound Care for Malignant Fungating Wounds: Holistic Considerations at End-of-Life
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This article introduces a framework to assist clinicians in the assessment and management of terminally ill patients with MFWs, a pragmatic and holistic interdisciplinary approach guided by specialist-level palliative wound care.About:
This article is published in Nursing Clinics of North America.The article was published on 2016-09-01. It has received 55 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Quality of life (healthcare) & Disfigurement.read more
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Characterization of triple-negative breast cancer preclinical models provides functional evidence of metastatic progression.
Juan J. Arroyo-Crespo,Ana Armiñán,David Charbonnier,Coralie Deladriere,Martina Palomino-Schätzlein,Rubén Lamas-Domingo,Jerónimo Forteza,Antonio Pineda-Lucena,María J. Vicent +8 more
TL;DR: Comparisons uncovered differential growth rates, stromal arrangements and metabolic profiles in primary tumors, and the presence of cancer‐associated adipocyte infiltration in the MDA‐MB‐231‐Luc model and an immunocompetent mouse 4T1 model, which will foster the development of advanced therapeutic strategies for TNBC treatment.
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Aktualisierte S3-Leitlinie „Palliativmedizin für Patienten mit einer nicht heilbaren Krebserkrankung“
TL;DR: Alt-Epping et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a survey on Palliativmedizin for the World Health Forum 2020 in 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12312-020-00794-z Online publiziert: 28. April 2020 © Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature 2020
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Qualidade de vida de pessoas com feridas crônicas
Aline Costa de Oliveira,Daniel de Macêdo Rocha,Sandra Marina Gonçalves Bezerra,Elaine Maria Leite Rangel Andrade,Ana Maria Ribeiro dos Santos,Lídya Tolstenko Nogueira +5 more
TL;DR: Os fatores clínicos influenciaram diretamente os domínios of QV, sendo necessária a utilização of estratégias diferenciadas com o intuito de reduzir o impacto na QV por se tratarem of aspectos that poderiam ser atenuados ou evitados mediante a avaliação da lesão and a escolha do
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Symptoms of Malignant Fungating Wounds and Functional Performance among Patients with Advanced Cancer: An Integrative Review from 2000 to 2019.
Charles P. Tilley,Mei R. Fu,Mei R. Fu,Janet Van Cleeve,Brooke Lee Crocilla,Christopher Comfort +5 more
TL;DR: This integrative review of the literature provided strong evidence that patients with MFWs suffered multiple symptoms, including pain, odor, exudate, bleeding, pruritus, perceived wound status, perceived bulk effect and lymphedema.
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Intervention for symptom management in patients with malignant fungating wounds - a systematic review.
Anastasia Tsichlakidou,Ourania Govina,Georgios Vasilopoulos,Anna Kavga,Maria Vastardi,Ioannis Kalemikerakis +5 more
TL;DR: A systematic review of original research about symptom management of malignant fungating wounds found odor and exudates were significantly decreased by the use of honey and silver dressings and patients with MFWs need a holistic treatment approach.
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Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
Geoffrey Hanks,Nathan I. Cherny,Nicholas A. Christakis,Marie Fallon,Stein Kaasa,Russell K. Portenoy +5 more
TL;DR: The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine 4Ed - Libros de Medicina - Oncologia general - 95,00 as mentioned in this paper, with a focus on cancer.
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Chronic Wound Care: A Clinical Source Book for Healthcare Professionals
Diane L. Krasner,Dean Kane +1 more
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Contemporary Hospice Care: the Sequestration of the Unbounded Body and ‘Dirty Dying’
TL;DR: It is suggested that conceptualising a hospice as a ‘no place’ allows it to be understood as a central part of contemporary Western culture and enables certain ideas about ‘living’, personhood and the hygienic, sanitised, bounded body to be symbolically enforced and maintained.
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Maceration of the skin and wound bed 1: its nature and causes
Keith Cutting,Richard White +1 more
TL;DR: This paper--the first of three reviewing the literature on its aetiology and management--looks at how maceration occurs.
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Medical Adhesives and Patient Safety: State of the Science: Consensus Statements for the Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment of Adhesive-Related Skin Injuries
TL;DR: A consensus panel of 23 recognized key opinion leaders convened to establish consensus statements on the assessment, prevention, and treatment of medical adhesive–related skin injury, and identifies research priorities for development of new adhesive technologies and protocols for skin protection.