Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to W Astudillo Alarcón.
Food is a factor of great importance in personal relationship during the terminal phase. There are numerous causes of appetite and taste disturbances that must be known by the family and physician. Some ideas are provided about the different ways to improve nutrition and appetite as a part of a plurisymptomatic management to maintain the patient's comfort until his last days of life.
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Paliative Medicine offers many possibilities to reach a good control of the bothering symptoms of terminal patients and to the support of their families. We review the different causes of suffering, suicide and of request of euthanasia as the process of Medical Decision-Making in the care of the Dying. It is necessary to search for ways to reduce the suffering and to improve the quality of life that remains instead of how to finish it earlier.