Anaesthesia and palliative care.
Palliative medicine provides end-of-life care to terminally ill patients with a focus on pain and symptom management, psychosocial and spiritual support and bereavement follow-up. This article reviews some of the more recent literature on the subject of palliative care focusing on educational barriers to quality palliative care, advances in quality assessment, and advances in pain and symptom management.
McGarrity
S J
SJ
Department of Anaesthesia, M.S. Hershey Medical Centre, Penn State Geisinger Health System, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA. smcgarrity@psghs.edu
Glynn
C J
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