A Good Death: To Recognize the End-of-Life in Time
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https://doi.org/10.24950/rspmi/Revisao/253/18/3/2019Keywords:
Palliative Care, Attitude to Death, Death, Terminal CareAbstract
At a time of increasing life expectancy and greater than ever
patients with chronic and incurable diseases in a medicine
that focus on healing, it is often difficult to determine that a
patient is dying and in a situation of impending death. Impeding-death is based on a syndrome of progressive functional
decline, oscillations of consciousness, multi-organ failure and
refusal to feed. This article aims to carry out a theoretical review on impeding-death by reviewing its characteristics and
setting in current medicine
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