Palliative Care at Home: Alternative Routes for Pharmaceutical Administration
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Drug Administration Routes, Palliative CareAbstract
Palliative care is intended to improve the patients and
patient’s families life quality in cases of serious and/or advanced, incurable or progressive diseases. Symptomatic management (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) is one of its areas of action, since its lack of control negatively influences the quality of life of the patient and his family. The
oral route is the preferred therapeutic route in palliative care,
however, there are situations in which its use is not possible.
Thus, it becomes important to have alternative therapeutic
routes to fulfill the objective of keeping the patient comfortable
at home. The aim of this work is to present the advantages
and disadvantages of the most used alternative routes and
their possible therapeutic options for the different symptoms.
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