{"title":"[Gout - clinical presentation].","authors":"Andreas Krebs","doi":"10.23785/TU.2024.05.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23785/TU.2024.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Gout is a common form of inflammation, characterized by sudden, severe attacks of pain, swelling, redness and tenderness. The diagnosis is based on the typical clinical pattern, but the definitive diagnosis requires the identification of urat crystals in the joint fluid or in ultrasound or DECT. The differential diagnosis includes always infection or other crystal arthropathies, in atypical presentation also other forms of arthritis, e.g. peripheral spondylarthritis.</p>","PeriodicalId":44874,"journal":{"name":"THERAPEUTISCHE UMSCHAU","volume":"81 5","pages":"153-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Dyspnea in patients in palliative situations - the invisible symptom].","authors":"Sandra Eckstein","doi":"10.23785/TU.2024.04.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23785/TU.2024.04.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Dyspnea is a common and distressing symptom in patients with advanced malignant and non-malignant diseases. It is a subjective experience that can only be described by the patients themselves and can be associated with a massive reduction in quality of life, including social isolation and wish to hasten death. Often there is an affective component such as anxiety or panic. Objective parameters do not necessarily correlate with the subjective experience. Health professionals often underestimate and inadequately treat the burden of dyspnea. The introduction of the concept of chronic breathlessness syndrome or acute-on-chronic-breathlessness aims to illustrate the nature of the condition and facilitate the identification and access to appropriate treatment. The management of dyspnea is complex, and for effective treatment, a combination of general, non-pharmacological, and pharmacological measures is usually advisable. Opioids should be offered to patients with incurable cancer and refractory dyspnea for symptom relief. They can be supplemented with benzodiazepines in cases of concomitant anxiety. The administration of oxygen is only indicated in cases of hypoxemia. Key measures include education, self-management skills acquisition and advance care planning for emergency situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":44874,"journal":{"name":"THERAPEUTISCHE UMSCHAU","volume":"81 4","pages":"145-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Oral mucosa problems in palliative care].","authors":"Petra Vayne-Bossert","doi":"10.23785/TU.2024.04.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23785/TU.2024.04.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Oral health problems appear in up to 80 % of palliative care patients. Almost all of these patients suffer from a dry mouth which is often the result of medication side effects. Even though a dry mouth is not a disease by itself, it enhances the risk of developing other more serious oral lesions and diseases. Stomatitis, an inflammatory response to radio- or oncological treatment induced lesions, is very painful and may interfere severely with the ingestion of food and fluids. Finally, oral fungal infections are very common in immunosuppressed patients. Each of these entities comes with specific symptoms and signs which may impair food and fluid intake but also have consequences on the quality of life in these patients. Hence, a systematic and standardized evaluation is essential and can be accomplished with little effort by all health care professionals.</p>","PeriodicalId":44874,"journal":{"name":"THERAPEUTISCHE UMSCHAU","volume":"81 4","pages":"129-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The challenge of nutrition in palliative care: Eating and drinking - beneficial even at the end of life?]","authors":"Silke Walter, Christine Zobrist","doi":"10.23785/TU.2024.04.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23785/TU.2024.04.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Food and nutrition play a major role in our lives. They include physical, psychological as well as cultural and social aspects. Illnesses increase the risk of altered food intake/absorption - of malnutrition. This applies in particular to palliative situations. The causes of malnutrition can be diverse. Malnutrition often leads to reduced performance and can therefore have a major impact on the quality of life and independency of patients. The aim of nutritional therapy interventions is therefore to maintain or improve the quality of life of patients with a life-threatening illness. The initially defined goals can change as the disease progresses. At the beginning of a life-threatening illness, adequate nutritional interventions are usually very effective. However, the benefits of nutritional therapy often change as the disease progresses and they often lose importance. For this reason, decision-making is an important process: Depending on the phase of illness, the prognosis and the patient's preferences, the nutritional therapy interventions needs to be reconsidered in regard of indication, individual benefit and the desired treatment goal on a regular base. As every medical intervention, nutritional therapy must regularly be adapted to the treatment goal if necessary.</p>","PeriodicalId":44874,"journal":{"name":"THERAPEUTISCHE UMSCHAU","volume":"81 4","pages":"139-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Characteristics of palliative care in the elderly].","authors":"Roland Kunz","doi":"10.23785/TU.2024.04.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23785/TU.2024.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Palliative care for elderly, mostly multimorbid people is an integrative concept that is included at an early stage of illness in addition to curative and rehabilitative treatments. Goals of treatment and in the rest of life are regularly discussed during the course in order to set individual priorities and to plan or question clarifications, treatments and nursing measures. The prognosis, the patient's wishes and values, the possible benefits and burdens of an intervention play a central role in the decision-making process. Advance care planning makes it easier to make decisions at a later stage, especially in the case of dementia, which increasingly impairs the ability to make judgments. Older people suffer not only from destressing symptoms such as pain, but also from functional limitations that affect their quality of life. In addition to symptom-alleviating interventions, rehabilitative measures are also part of the palliative concept. In pain treatment, age-adapted adjustments to the medication are to be considered and the multidimensionality of the pain experience must be taken into account. In the case of cognitive impairment, appropriate observation tools help to identify possible pain. In the context of dementia, palliative treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms should be considered if the patient suffers from them.</p>","PeriodicalId":44874,"journal":{"name":"THERAPEUTISCHE UMSCHAU","volume":"81 4","pages":"107-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Speaking and deciding with a serious illness].","authors":"Klaus Bally","doi":"10.23785/TU.2024.04.006","DOIUrl":"10.23785/TU.2024.04.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>It is a GP's task to identify patients as palliative patients at an early stage using suitable instruments. As part of a multidimensional basic assessment, the needs and expectations of the patient and their loved ones are recorded. During the interview, open questions are cla-rified, concerns are addressed and treatment options are discussed; a treatment goal is then jointly developed. Based on this treatment goal, an advance care plan is drawn up in consultation with the advising specialist and, if possible, with the involvement of a trusted person. The treatment goal, decisions and measures to be taken in an emergency are recorded in appropriate documents, which also serve to coordinate and communicate between persons involved in treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":44874,"journal":{"name":"THERAPEUTISCHE UMSCHAU","volume":"81 4","pages":"134-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mirjam Buschor-Bichsel, Andrea Berendes, Katelijne De Nys
{"title":"[Pain therapy in palliative care].","authors":"Mirjam Buschor-Bichsel, Andrea Berendes, Katelijne De Nys","doi":"10.23785/TU.2024.04.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23785/TU.2024.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Complex pain is common in palliative care. The bio-psycho-social and spiritual model is important for understanding and treatment. Differentiation according to nociceptive, neuropathic and mixed pain should be considered. Analgesic therapy is based on the WHO guidelines and the extended WHO analgesic ladder. The pain management plan includes pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions with involvement of the private and professional network.</p>","PeriodicalId":44874,"journal":{"name":"THERAPEUTISCHE UMSCHAU","volume":"81 4","pages":"122-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Palliative Care – eine Herausforderung auch für die medizinische Grundversorgung.","authors":"Klaus Bally","doi":"10.23785/TU.2024.04.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23785/TU.2024.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong></p>","PeriodicalId":44874,"journal":{"name":"THERAPEUTISCHE UMSCHAU","volume":"81 4","pages":"106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manuel Trachsel, Scott A Irwin, Harvey Max Chochinov
{"title":"[Anxiety and fear at the end of life].","authors":"Manuel Trachsel, Scott A Irwin, Harvey Max Chochinov","doi":"10.23785/TU.2024.04.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23785/TU.2024.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Fears and anxieties are a common cause of suffering for patients at the end of life. These are often either fears about dying - for example, fear of unbearable pain or fear of suffocation - or fear of death itself. If unrecognized and untreated, fears and anxieties can contribute to a considerable reduction in the quality of life in the last phase of life. Careful diagnosis of anxiety and fear is therefore crucial. Multimodal treatment, which includes psychotherapy and other non-pharmacological and - if necessary - pharmacological treatments, can provide significant relief.</p>","PeriodicalId":44874,"journal":{"name":"THERAPEUTISCHE UMSCHAU","volume":"81 4","pages":"115-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Physical Activity and Obesity - Underlying Mechanisms, Practical Actions].","authors":"Ulrich Hamberger","doi":"10.23785/TU.2024.03.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23785/TU.2024.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Individuals with obesity who undergo surgical or pharmacological therapies achieve good results in terms of weight and cardiometabolic risk reduction. It is not uncommon for those affected to equate the extent of weight loss achieved, with long-term treatment success. What is overlooked is that, in addition to obesity, significant weight loss also carries a risk of sarcopenia. Sarcopenic obesity and sarcopenia, in turn, increase the risk of cardiometabolic diseases. Physical activity has the potential to counteract cardiometabolic disease risk caused by obesity and sarcopenia. The underlying mechanism is contained in the endocrine organ skeletal muscle. The production and release of myokines in particular counteracts sarcopenic obesity and its complications. Physical activity is required to initiate myokine production. Endurance and strength training proves to be an effective training combination. In order to achieve a sustainable cardiometabolic risk reduction, the objectives and timing of physical activity should therefore be divided into two phases, a preparatory phase and an actual weight loss phase.</p>","PeriodicalId":44874,"journal":{"name":"THERAPEUTISCHE UMSCHAU","volume":"81 3","pages":"74-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141564782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}