COVID-19 end-of-life care: symptoms and supportive therapy use in an Australian hospital.
Aaron Kee Yee WongLucy DemediukJia Y TayOlivia WawrykAnna CollinsRachel EverittJennifer PhilipKirsty BuisingBrian H LePublished in: Internal medicine journal (2021)
This study presents one of the first and largest Australian report of the end of life and symptom experience of people dying of COVID-19. This information should help clinicians to anticipate palliative care needs of these patients, for example, recognising that higher starting doses of opioids and sedatives may help reduce prevalence and severity of breathlessness and agitation near death.
Keyphrases
- palliative care
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- end stage renal disease
- advanced cancer
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- healthcare
- chronic pain
- risk factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- emergency department
- pain management
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- depressive symptoms
- health information
- mesenchymal stem cells