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What exactly happens during palliative care?

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Palliative care: Palliative care is designed for preventing and allaying the suffering of people who are suffering from chronic illnesses. This is a multidisciplinary approach, including, physicians, pharmacists, social workers, psychologists etc.

Answered 1/23/2015

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Comfort care: Palliative care is provided for somebody who has a life-threatening disease that may cause death but it is not clear when. It strives to increase quality of life of the patients and their famlies.

Answered 3/31/2015

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Palliative care. : Palliative care places less emphasis on the aggressive treatment of medical issues and more emphasis on keeping the patient with those medical issues as comfortable as possible. Usually meant for patients with terminal,'incurable medical issues. Hospitals generally employ specialists in palliative care.

Answered 6/9/2017

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