Longnecker's Anesthesiology >
Chapter 94. Palliative and Cancer Pain Care

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine >
Chapter 47. Pain Management in End of Life: Palliative Care

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine >
Chapter 55. Cancer Pain and Palliative Care in Children

Principles of Critical Care >
Chapter 17. Withholding or Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Therapy and Administering of Palliative Care

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Chapter 46. Anesthetic Interventions in Cancer Pain >
Invasive, Nonpharmacologic Palliative Procedures
... About one in ten patients with pain due to cancer continues to experience pain despite maximal application of noninvasive analgesic methods. With few exceptions, noninvasive ...

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Chapter 52. Sickle Cell Disease >
Sickle Cell, Quality of Life, and Palliative Care
... Palliative care is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment. Symptomatic ...

Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation > Chapter 66. The Ethics of Withholding and Withdrawing Mechanical Ventilation > Fundamental Issues of Ethics >
The SUPPORT studies showed a high rate of unacceptable pain in dying patients.^49,50 When...
... studies showed a high rate of unacceptable pain in dying patients. 49,50 When withholding or withdrawing mechanical ventilation is in order, clinicians have the duty to emphasize comfort ...