Medical and pharmaceutical support for patients in palliative care: emphasis on pain relief: Qualification work for obtaining the educational level "Master"

Abstract

The master's thesis presents a modern analysis of the problem associated with the physical, mental, and social status of patients who need symptomatic care, unfortunately most often at the final stage of their lives. This stage is caused by very serious chronic diseases, in which all possible radical methods are ineffective. Therefore, we are talking about the so-called palliative care, palliative therapy, which is in demand in wide circles. These include chronic diseases of the cardiovascular system, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, diseases of the nervous system, mental and autoimmune diseases, etc. Symptomatic palliative therapy is widely used in inoperable forms of malignant neoplasms, in stage 3-4 cancer, when it comes to pain relief, which does not solve the problem, but reduces the negative impact of pain on the quality of the last days of life. The work was devoted to determining the clinical characteristics of pain, the differentiated choice of analgesia in hospital and outpatient settings.