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Pediatric palliative medicine in Brazil: an ethical reflection of medical practice

The ethical barriers involved in the practice of pediatric palliative medicine remain high and challenging. In terms of medical ethics, attention should be paid to culture, religion and family values, in order to promote adequate care for caregivers,…

Use of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine in Chinese paediatric patients receiving palliative care: A multicentre study

Paediatric Palliative Care in a Reference Centre of Inherited Metabolic Diseases

INTRODUCTION: Paediatric palliative care (PPC) has a significant role in improving the quality of life of children with life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses, diminishing symptom burden, and providing holistic support to patients and families.…

More qualitative research is needed to unpack the complexities of resuscitation decisions for preterm infants

We read with interest Sriraman et al's (2023)1 response to our article ‘Resuscitation thresholds were seen as guidance by Belgian neonatologists and other relevant factors were included in decision-making’.2 We appreciate that other institutions use…

Tags: 2023, Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics, Cavolo A, Gastmans C, Gestational Age, Human, Infant, Infant Premature, Letter, Medical Decision Making, November List 2037, Palliative Therapy, pediatric patient, Practice Guideline, Prematurity, Qualitative Research, Resuscitation

Impact of Animal-Assisted Interaction on Anxiety in Children With Advanced Cancer and Their Caregivers

Background: Pediatric patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers have unique psychosocial needs. Anxiety often worsens throughout treatment for both patients and parents, and, if undertreated, can cause suffering. Animal-assisted interaction…

Communication and information sharing with pediatric patients including refugees with advanced cancer, their caregivers, and health care professionals in Jordan: a qualitative study

Introduction: Effective communication in pediatric palliative cancer care is an important aspect of practice to enhance patient- and family-centered care, and to optimize decision-making. However, little is known about communication preferences…

Hospice Care in India-A Pediatrician's Perspective

Hospice care plays a vital role in providing compassionate and holistic support to terminally ill patients and their families. While hospice care has gained recognition and acceptance globally, its implementation and understanding in the context of…

Tags: 2023, 2023 SE5 - Low Resource Setting, Article, Child, Ghoshal A, Hospice Care, Hospices, Human, India, Malignant Neoplasm, Nair M, Palliative Therapy, pediatric patient, Pediatrician, South Asian Journal of Cancer, terminally Ill Patient

Clinical and genetic characteristics of Tunisian children with infantile nephropathic cystinosis

Background: Nephropathic cystinosis is an autosomal recessive disease caused by a mutation in the CTNS gene which encodes cystinosin, a lysosomal cystine transporter. The spectrum of mutations in the CTNS gene is not well defined in the North African…

Tags: 2023, 2023 SE5 - Low Resource Setting, Achour A, Article, Ben Youssef S, bicarbonate/dt [Drug Therapy], bicarbonate/pv [Special Situation for Pharmacovigilance], calcitriol/dt [Drug Therapy], calcitriol/pv [Special Situation for Pharmacovigilance], Child, citrate potassium/dt [Drug Therapy], citrate potassium/pv [Special Situation for Pharmacovigilance], Clinical Article, Clinical Feature, Controlled Study, CTNS gene, cystine/ec [Endogenous Compound], cystinosis/di [Diagnosis], cystinosis/dt [Drug Therapy], El Younsi M, exon, Fanconi renotubular syndrome, Female, founder mutation, Gargah T, gene, Gene Deletion, gene mutation, genetic analysis, genetic trait, Hammi Y, heterozygosity, homozygosity, Human, hypothyroidism/dt [Drug Therapy], Infant, infantile nephropathic cystinosis/di [Diagnosis], infantile nephropathic cystinosis/dt [Drug Therapy], Information Processing, Kharrat M, kidney disease/di [Diagnosis], kidney disease/dt [Drug Therapy], M'Rad R, Maazoul F, Male, mercaptamine/dt [Drug Therapy], mercaptamine/pv [Special Situation for Pharmacovigilance], molecular diagnosis, molecular fingerprinting, Only Child, Ouertani I, Palliative Therapy, Pediatric Nephrology, pediatric patient, Prenatal Diagnosis, Preschool Child, Retrospective Study, RNA splicing, Sanger sequencing, thyroid hormone/dt [Drug Therapy], thyroid hormone/pv [Special Situation for Pharmacovigilance], Trabelsi M, Tunisian

A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services, and treatments

Background: Chronic non-cancer pain in childhood is widespread, affecting 20% to 35% of children and young people worldwide. For a sizeable number of children, chronic non-cancer pain has considerable negative impacts on their lives and quality of…

Tags: 2023, abdominal pain, Adolescent, Analgesia, Analgesics Opioid, Anthropology Cultural, Caes L, Child, Child Parent Relation, Chronic Pain, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, cultural anthropology, Disease Severity, endometriosis, ethnography, Family, Family Life, February List 2024, Fibromyalgia, Forbat L, France E, Headache, Health Care Personnel, Health Service, Human, Humans, inflammatory bowel disease, Jordan A, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, migraine, musculoskeletal pain, narcotic analgesic agent, Noyes J, outcome assessment, Pain Assessment, Pain Severity, patient-reported outcome, pediatric patient, Peer Group, Personal Experience, Prognosis, Quality Of Life, racism, Review, Sibling, Silveira Bianchim M, Social Care, Social Isolation, Social Support, Social Work, Systematic Review, Thomson K, Turley R, Uny I, Wellbeing

Thirty-day mortality as a metric for palliative radiotherapy in pediatric patients

Purpose of review: Thirty-day mortality (30DM) is an emerging consideration for determining whether terminally ill adult patients may benefit from palliative radiotherapy (RT). However, the efficacy and ethics of delivering palliative RT at the end…

The Use of Cannabinoids in Pediatric Palliative Care-A Retrospective Single-Center Analysis

This data analysis aimed to systematically analyze a pediatric patient population with a life-limiting disease who were administered cannabinoids. It was a retrospective single-center analysis of patients under supervision of the specialized…

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