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Palliative Care for Children with Central Nervous System Malignancies
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: Received: 15 August 2018 / Approved: 16 August 2018 / Online: 16 August 2018 (15:14:46 CEST)
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Baenziger, P.H.; Moody, K. Palliative Care for Children with Central Nervous System Malignancies. Bioengineering 2018, 5, 85. Baenziger, P.H.; Moody, K. Palliative Care for Children with Central Nervous System Malignancies. Bioengineering 2018, 5, 85.
Abstract
Children with central nervous system (CNS) malignancies often suffer from high symptom burden and risk of death. Pediatric palliative care is a medical specialty, provided by an interdisciplinary team, which focuses on enhancing quality of life and minimizing suffering for children with life-threatening or life-limiting disease, and their families. Primary palliative care skills which include basic symptom management, facilitation of goals-of-care discussions, and transition to hospice can and should be developed by all providers of neuro-oncology care. This chapter will review the fundamentals of providing primary palliative care
Keywords
Keywords: palliative care, child, brain, neoplasm, neuropathic pain, pain, symptoms, hospice
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Oncology and Oncogenics
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