title: Care of the dying. Symptom control.
abstract: Symptom relief in patients close to death is an important and challenging part of most doctors' lives. It is difficult sometimes to accept that the battle for life has effectively been lost, and that life-sustaining measures are becoming progressively more futile and increasingly more burdensome.
mesh_terms: D000700:Analgesics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000855:Anorexia / Q000517:prevention & control; D003221:Confusion / Q000517:prevention & control; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000517:prevention & control; D009325:Nausea / Q000517:prevention & control; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000628:therapy; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000379:methods*; D014839:Vomiting / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D000700:Analgesics