Palliativmedizinisch orientierte Therapieansätze für alle Patienten

Abstract

Palliative care treatment is increasingly becoming integrated into medical education and into medical curricula of all disciplines. Palliative ideas and goals are focussed on patients in the so-called palliative stages of disease. Furthermore, palliative medicine is often described as the medicine of dying patients. As a result of this study it seems to make sense to extend palliative care aspects to all patients and to all patient care. The extent to which such opportunities exist and such health care is economically feasible remains to be the subject of further clinical studies.

The Validity of Advance Directives in Acute Situations

“…Issues relating to palliative care play too small a role in the training provided to students (15). Because such issues are becoming increasingly important in an aging society, they should also be part of specialist training in intensive care medicine (16).…”