Palliative Care in SARS-CoV-2: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
González-Botello AL ◽  
◽  
Elías-Pérez KI ◽  
Caballero-Martínez AA ◽  
Martínez-Del Campo-Cerrilla M ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Curative Treatment ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Do So

Objective: Gather information about an important aspect of SARS-CoV-2 disease, regard to palliative care. Introduction: SARS-CoV-2 disease started by the ending of 2019 in Wuhan-China and given the lack of a specific treatment, the role of palliative care in SARS-CoV-2 infection has been drawn to the spotlight. Method: A systematic review was carried out between June and October of 2020. A total of 25 articles were totally reviewed. Results: The management of symptoms, is the main objective of palliative care in SARS-CoV-2. We find ourselves with the interrogant of when to start palliative care and with what medications and measures it is preferred to do so. Discussion: As SARS-CoV-2 currently does not have a curative treatment, palliative care is the centerpiece of its management. Conclusion: Palliative care should be considered as a protocol in any disease with no curative treatment at the moment, just like SARS-CoV-2.

scholarly journals Characterizing the Role of U.S. Surgeons in the Provision of Palliative Care: A Systematic Review and Mixed-Methods Meta-Synthesis

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 1196-1215.e5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasithorn A. Suwanabol ◽  
Arielle E. Kanters ◽  
Ari C. Reichstein ◽  
Lauren M. Wancata ◽  
Lesly A. Dossett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Mixed Methods

scholarly journals Role of Hormonal Treatment in Prostate Cancer Patients with Nonmetastatic Disease Recurrence After Local Curative Treatment: A Systematic Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 802-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick C.N. van den Bergh ◽  
Niels J. van Casteren ◽  
Thomas van den Broeck ◽  
Eve R. Fordyce ◽  
William K.M. Gietzmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Hormonal Treatment ◽  
Disease Recurrence ◽  
Curative Treatment

scholarly journals Children’s Creativity: A Theoretical Framework and Systematic Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Kupers ◽  
Andreas Lehmann-Wermser ◽  
Gary McPherson ◽  
Paul van Geert
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Dynamic Systems Theory ◽  
School Students ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Complex Dynamic Systems ◽  
The Moment

Within education, the importance of creativity is recognized as an essential 21st-century skill. Based on this premise, the first aim of this article is to provide a theoretical integration through the development of a framework based on the principles of complex dynamic systems theory, which describes and explains children’s creativity. This model is used to explain differing views on the role of education in developing children’s creativity. Our second aim is empirical integration. On the basis of a three-dimensional taxonomy, we performed a systematic review of the recent literature (2006–2017, 184 studies) on primary school students’ creativity. Our results show that creativity is most often measured as a static, aggregated construct. In line with our theoretical model, we suggest ways that future research can elaborate on the moment-to-moment interactions that form the basis of long-term creative development, as well as on the mechanisms that connect different levels of creativity.

scholarly journals Photographs of silos

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catalina Mejía Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
South American ◽  
Grain Elevators ◽  
Trade And Exchange ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
North And South ◽  
Walter Gropius ◽  
Do So

This article explores the dissemination of the photographs and photo-reproductions of the now-canonical North and South American grain elevators, published and disseminated in the early twentieth century in publications such as the 1913 Werkbund Yearbook where Walter Gropius included them as illustrations to his article, and later by Le Corbusier in Vers une architecture, amongst many others. It emphasises that while within architecture discourse the idea of a canon made up of buildings is widely accepted, this article identifies and stresses the role of ‘photographic canons’ as a means to further challenge these constructions. To do so, the article focuses on the moment where these photo-reproductions were consolidated as canonical and the mechanisms that such a construct implied. It investigates the photo-reproductions’ history as objects of trade and exchange, as well as their mobilisation in relation to photographic media and different dissemination platforms to argue that, on the one hand, that this informed their reading as architectural, and thus singular, objects. And on the other, that the materiality of the photo-reproductions’ different instances testifies to their nature as commodities and objects of trade, and therefore to the consolidation of their canonical status.

scholarly journals Perceived factors to providing palliative care for patients with cancer - a qualitative systematic review

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haydeh Heidari ◽  
Marjan Mardani-Hamooleh ◽  
Masoud Amiri
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Qualitative Systematic Review ◽  
Patient’S Experience ◽  
Synthesis Approach ◽  
Qualitative Literature

Palliative care (PC) is one of the necessary cares given throughout a patient’s experience with cancer. The aim of this study was to identify the perceived factors to providing PC for patients with cancer. Our study was a systematic review of qualitative literature. To this end, electronic databases, including CINAHL, PubMed, PsycINFO, Ovid, and Web of Science as well as Persian databases were searched and qualitative studies on the role of PC in patients with cancer published between Jan 2008 and Dec 2017 were selected. Generally, 12 studies were reviewed. A thematic synthesis approach was used to analyze the data. Exploring the selected articles, the findings on the perceived factors to providing PC for patients with cancer were categorized into three themes, including organizational factors, ethical factors, and psychological factors. This qualitative systematic review expands our knowledge about factors influencing the provision of PC for patients with cancer. It is necessary for health system managers and caregivers to pay attention to all aforesaid factors in order to improve PC for cancer patients.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of the Role of Physiotherapy Interventions in Palliative Care

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Phokontsi ◽  
Larry L Mweetwa ◽  
Larry Mweetwa ◽  
Tumelo Tlhoiwe ◽  
Christine K Muya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Breathing Exercises ◽  
Critical Appraisal Tool ◽  
Ebsco Host ◽  
Study Type ◽  
Appraisal Tool ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The aim of this research is to conduct a systematic review analysing the role of the physiotherapy interventions in palliative care. PRISMA as a critical appraisal tool was utilised for the selection of the research articles. The inclusion criteria were based on the year of publication, ease of availability, language, geographical location, and study type. To ensure the credibility, databases such as Elsevier, Proquest, and EBSCO Host were used to filter the grey content. Data published in the past ten years (2009-onwards) was only included to ensure the selection of the most recent interventions used by the physiotherapists. A total of 11 articles were selected which determined that physiotherapy interventions involving breathing exercises, aerobic exercises, manual therapies, and educational awareness were critical to promoting the functional capability and empower the patients.

scholarly journals The Role of Emergency Care in Patients with Advanced Dementia

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran Lewis Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Emergency Care ◽  
Care Pathway ◽  
Advanced Dementia ◽  
Emergency Physicians ◽  
Comfort Zone ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Trajectory Of Care ◽  
Physician Workload

The prevalence of advanced dementia (AD) is expected to increase dramatically over the next few decades.  Patients with AD suffer from recurrent episodic illnesses that frequently result in transfers to acute care hospitals.  The default pathway followed by the emergency physicians, internists and intensivists who see those patients there is prioritize disease-directed therapies over attention to the larger picture of advanced dementia.  While this strategy is desired by many families, some families prefer a different approach.  This essay examines the reason why this phenomenon occurs and offers suggestions for improvement.  Gaps in information and physician workload are important factors, but we argue that until physicians who see patients in emergency departments learn to pause first and ask “Why are we doing this?" they will revert to their comfort zone of ordering tests and therapies that may be unwanted.  A separate emergency palliative care pathway may be one solution.  Shifting the focus back to the larger picture of AD and away from the physiologic disturbance of the moment may alter the trajectory of care in ways that truly respect the wishes of some patients and their families.

Libertarian Volition and the Problem of Luck

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Maria A. Sekatskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Causal Role ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Determinism And Indeterminism ◽  
Do So

The most important difference between contemporary compatibilist and libertarian theories is not the difference in their positions regarding the truth of the thesis of physical determinism, but their different approaches to the causal role of agents. According to libertarians, volitional acts performed by agents constitute a specific type of causes, which are not themselves caused by other causes. In this respect, event-causal libertarianism is similar to the agent-causal libertarianism, because it insists that in performing a volitional act an agent can choose one of the alternative outcomes without being caused to do so by anything else, where ‘anything else’ includes all the facts about the past and the present. Since event-causal libertarians maintain that volitional acts and the causal role of agents can be explained naturalistically, they must solve the problem of luck, i.e., they must explain how an agent is able to control her choices, given that she can choose one way or another without there being any difference in her state immediately preceding the moment of choice. This problem arises not from the indeterminism per se, but from the way it is coupled with the causal role of agents.In section one, I consider the historical development of compatibilist views on physical determinism and indeterminism. In section two, I present an overview of conditional analyses of alternative possibilities. In section three, I analyze the reasons why libertarians reject any type of conditional analysis, and show that intuitive objections against physical determinism, which portrait it as an obstacle to freedom, are untenable. In section four, I consider the consequence argument and show how it is related to the libertarian condition of sourcehood. In the final section, I analyze the problem of luck and show that it inevitably arises for any version of libertarianism. I demonstrate that indeterminism is a problem for libertarians, although they need it. And it is not a problem for compatibilists, who, while they do not need it, can incorporate it in their theories without facing the problem of luck.

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