Palliative care in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
[2024-02-18 15:04:08]
The prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is increasing and related to high mortality rates. According to the latest data of Global Disease Burden Study 2015 announced at Lancet Respiratory Medicine on August 16, 2015, the death toll from COPD in 2015 is 32 million people worldwide, 11.6 compared with 1990 %Increased has. Between 1990 and 2015, despite the overall reduction in age-specific mortality and morbidity, the morbidity rate of COPD increased by 44.2%.
For patients diagnosed with COPD, the reality of disease limiting life causing severe dyspnea is often frightening. Predicting prognosis is difficult for their clinician. In this week 's "Lancet" magazine, a series of papers are discussing palliative care for patients with COPD and are part of the agenda of the European Respiratory Society held in Milan on September 12. The median symptoms of patients with COPD are 11 to 14, with dyspnea, cough, fatigue, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and pain. Non-pharmacological and pharmacological approaches to managing symptoms can improve the quality of life. People are often afraid of the end, but rarely discuss it. For COPD patients, palliative care and respiration, early combination of primary care and rehabilitation services, and introduction based on symptom complexity than prognostic prediction are possible
Recognition of curative treatment and palliative care is difficult for clinicians, patients and their families to recognize but is an important and overlooked part of clinical practice, especially in oncology. For cancer patients in many high-income countries, palliative care is a well-studied and well-funded care element, but for those who died of other diseases the condition is not well accepted. For many in low-income and middle-income countries, palliative care is simply not available This is the focus of the Lancet committee released on October 12, October 12. Palliative care and its access require more attention worldwide
For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), high-quality palliative care remains a major challenge in modern healthcare systems. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines palliative care as "aggressive comprehensive care for patients who do not respond to curative treatment". This is a definition that definitely explains the care of patients with COPD. The World Health Organization says that such care is "to improve the quality of life for patients and their families ... to prevent and reduce suffering through early detection and satisfactory assessment and treatment of pain and other problems We should include the method of ". , Psychosocial, and spiritual. To relieve pain should also include effective patient and family-centered communication, identification of patient care goals, joint decisions and prior care planning.
The palliative care team treats people with severe and complicated chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease such as congestive heart failure (CHF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), renal failure, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease Disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), etc. In the past 15 years, the field of palliative care has achieved remarkable growth. This is a rapid increase. There are palliative care teams at more than 1,700 hospitals with over 50 beds today. And palliative care is spreading outside the hospital to the area where people suffering from serious illness actually live there.
The palliative care team specializes in the treatment of cancer, congestive heart failure (CHF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), kidney disease, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) People with severe illness symptoms and stress. More care such as this can treat symptoms that cause pain, depression, shortness of breath, fatigue, constipation, nausea, anorexia, difficulty sleeping, anxiety, and other pain. The palliative care team also spends time tal