[Discomfort symptoms other than pain at the end of life].
Discomfort symptoms can be intense at the ending life. To relieve the dying conditions, general practitioners and hospital doctors should be able to give attentive bodily cares and prescribe adjusted drugs, always based on clinic evaluation. This article tries to answer to the following questions. How to feed and hydrate the patient? How to administer drugs? Is it possible to prevent scabs, swallowing problems, vesicle eyeballs, fecaloma? How to treat terminal dyspnea, to face emergencies? Which psychotropic drugs can alleviate anxiety, depression, delirium? Which criteria to use to take therapeutic decisions in terminal stage?
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Service d'accompagnement et de soins palliatifs, Hôpital Saint-André, Bordeaux.
D000700:Analgesics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D003248:Constipation / Q000628:therapy; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009910:Oral Hygiene; D010166:Palliative Care; D017592:Skin Care; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy; D013727:Terminal Care
D000700:Analgesics; D000928:Antidepressive Agents