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Scoping review of end-of-life care for persons with anorexia nervosa. 神经性厌食症患者临终关怀的范围界定综述。
4区 医学
Annals of palliative medicine Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-17 DOI: 10.21037/apm-23-522
Anna L Westermair, Sascha Weber, Patricia Westmoreland, Philip S Mehler, Frank Elsner, Manuel Trachsel
{"title":"Scoping review of end-of-life care for persons with anorexia nervosa.","authors":"Anna L Westermair, Sascha Weber, Patricia Westmoreland, Philip S Mehler, Frank Elsner, Manuel Trachsel","doi":"10.21037/apm-23-522","DOIUrl":"10.21037/apm-23-522","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>End-of-life (EOL) care is the part of palliative care intended for persons nearing death. In anorexia nervosa (AN), providing EOL care instead of coercing life-sustaining measures is controversial. The existing literature has not been synthesized yet. To clearly delineate differing views and identify open questions as well as areas of possible consensus, we conducted the first-ever synthesis of the existing literature.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We searched EMBASE, PubMed, PsycInfo, and Web of Science for scientific publications on forgoing coerced life-sustaining measures and/or providing EOL care for persons with AN who refuse life-sustaining measures, typically artificial nutrition. Palliative care outside of the EOL context and medical assistance in dying were not reviewed. As very little quantitative studies were identified, we qualitatively analyzed conceptual questions, ethical reasoning, legal aspects, stakeholder attitudes, practical aspects, stakeholder needs, and outcome.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified 117 eligible publications from 1984 to 2023, mainly case reports (n=26 different cases) and ethical analyses. Conceptualizations of key terms such as terminality, futility, and decision-making capacity (DMC) in AN varied widely and were often value-laden and circular. Ethical reasoning centered on weighing the preservation of life versus quality of life in the context of uncertainty about DMC and likelihood of clinical remission. Studies on stakeholder attitudes reflected this challenge. In some cases, courts ruled against coerced life-sustaining measures and/or in favor of EOL care for persons with AN. While eligibility criteria were contested, recommendations for deliberating about and providing EOL care were consistent. We identified only one study on stakeholder needs and none on outcome. Case reports described quality of life under EOL care as good and death as the most frequent outcome but engagement in voluntary treatment and (partial) clinical remission in some.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The debate around EOL care in AN needs consented, coherent terminology whose value base is reduced to a minimum and made transparent. While more empirical research into decision-making in AN and predictors of outcome might help reduce uncertainty, fundamental normative questions need to be addressed, for example regarding the ethico-legal significance of treatment refusals, the weighing of quantity versus quality of life and the appropriateness of diagnosis-based ethico-legal exceptionalism such as hard paternalism. More research is needed on outcome of and stakeholder needs in EOL care for persons with AN.</p>","PeriodicalId":7956,"journal":{"name":"Annals of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":"685-707"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141070229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Outcomes of care during the last month of life: a systematic review to inform the development of a core outcome set. 生命最后一个月的护理结果:为制定核心结果集提供信息的系统性回顾。
4区 医学
Annals of palliative medicine Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.21037/apm-23-435
Valentina González-Jaramillo, Nora Luethi, Martina Egloff, Zayne M Roa-Díaz, Nathalia González-Jaramillo, Catalina Díaz-Ríos, Andri Christen-Cevallos Rosero, Susanna Dodd, Steffen Eychmüller, Sofía C Zambrano
{"title":"Outcomes of care during the last month of life: a systematic review to inform the development of a core outcome set.","authors":"Valentina González-Jaramillo, Nora Luethi, Martina Egloff, Zayne M Roa-Díaz, Nathalia González-Jaramillo, Catalina Díaz-Ríos, Andri Christen-Cevallos Rosero, Susanna Dodd, Steffen Eychmüller, Sofía C Zambrano","doi":"10.21037/apm-23-435","DOIUrl":"10.21037/apm-23-435","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>To date, there is a lack of standardization and consensus on which outcomes are central to assess the care provided to patients in the last month of life. Therefore, we aimed to conduct a systematic review to identify relevant outcomes to inform the development of a core outcome set for the best care for the dying person.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a systematic review of outcomes reported in the scientific literature about the care for the dying person in the last month of life. We searched for peer-reviewed studies published before February 2022 in four electronic databases. To categorise the outcomes, we employed the taxonomy developed by the \"Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials\" collaboration.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Out of the 2,933 articles retrieved, 619 were included for analyses. The majority of studies (71%) were retrospective and with data extracted from chart reviews (71%). We extracted 1,951 outcomes in total, from which, after deletion of repeated outcomes, we identified 256 unique ones. The most frequently assessed outcomes were those related to medication or therapeutic interventions and those to hospital/healthcare use. Outcomes related to psychosocial wellbeing were rarely assessed. The closer to death, the less frequently the outcomes were studied.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Most outcomes were related to medical interventions or to hospital use. Only a few studies focused on other components of integrated care such as psychosocial aspects. It remains to be defined which of these outcomes are fundamental to achieve the best care for the dying.</p>","PeriodicalId":7956,"journal":{"name":"Annals of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":"627-640"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140093294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Palliative psychiatry: research, clinical, and educational priorities. 姑息精神病学:研究、临床和教育优先事项。
4区 医学
Annals of palliative medicine Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.21037/apm-23-471
Sarah Levitt, Rachel B Cooper, Mona Gupta, Jeffrey Kirby, Lucy Panko, Daniel Rosenbaum, Kelli Stajduhar, Manuel Trachsel, Danusha Vinoraj, Anna Lisa Westermair, Anne Woods, Daniel Z Buchman
{"title":"Palliative psychiatry: research, clinical, and educational priorities.","authors":"Sarah Levitt, Rachel B Cooper, Mona Gupta, Jeffrey Kirby, Lucy Panko, Daniel Rosenbaum, Kelli Stajduhar, Manuel Trachsel, Danusha Vinoraj, Anna Lisa Westermair, Anne Woods, Daniel Z Buchman","doi":"10.21037/apm-23-471","DOIUrl":"10.21037/apm-23-471","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Palliative psychiatry has been proposed as a new clinical construct within mental health care and aims to improve quality of life (QoL) for individuals experiencing severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI). To date, explorations of palliative psychiatry have been largely theoretical, and more work is needed to develop its approaches into tangible clinical practice.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this paper, we synthesize existing literature with discussions held at a one-day knowledge user meeting titled \"A Community of Practice for Palliative Psychiatry\" to generate priorities for research, clinical practice, and education that will help advance the development of palliative psychiatry.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Palliative psychiatry will benefit from research that is co-produced by people with lived experience (PWLE) of mental illness, that clarifies contested concepts within mental health care and wider medicine, and that adapts existing interventions that have the potential to improve the QoL of individuals experiencing SPMI into the mental health care context. Specific methods and tools might be developed for use in clinical spaces taking a palliative psychiatry approach. More work must be done to understand the populations that might benefit from palliative psychiatry, and to mitigate mental health care providers' (MHCPs') anxieties about using these approaches in their work. As palliative psychiatry is developed, current MHCPs, trainees, individuals experiencing SPMI, and their loved ones will all require education about and orientation to this novel approach within mental health care.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There are several priorities in research, clinical practice, and education that can help advance the development of palliative psychiatry. All future work must be considered through a human rights-based, anti-oppressive lens. Research projects, clinical models, and educational initiatives should all be developed in co-production with PWLE to mitigate the epistemic injustices common in mental health care.</p>","PeriodicalId":7956,"journal":{"name":"Annals of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":"542-557"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141070228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Do advanced cancer patients and their caregivers agree on preferred place of patient's death?-a prospective cohort study of patient-caregiver dyads. 晚期癌症患者及其照护者是否就患者的首选死亡地点达成一致?
4区 医学
Annals of palliative medicine Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.21037/apm-23-496
Chetna Malhotra, Wei Sheng Loo, Isha Chaudhry
{"title":"Do advanced cancer patients and their caregivers agree on preferred place of patient's death?-a prospective cohort study of patient-caregiver dyads.","authors":"Chetna Malhotra, Wei Sheng Loo, Isha Chaudhry","doi":"10.21037/apm-23-496","DOIUrl":"10.21037/apm-23-496","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Greater patient-caregiver concordance for preferred place of death can increase the chances of patients dying at their preferred place, thus improving quality of life at end-of-life (EOL). We aimed to assess changes in and predictors of patient-caregiver concordance in preference for home death at EOL during the last 3 years of life of patients with advanced cancer.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used data from the Cost of Medical Care of Patients with Advanced Serious Illness in Singapore (COMPASS) cohort study of patients with stage IV solid cancer. We interviewed patients and their caregivers every 4 months to assess their preference for home death (for patient), and patient (symptom burden, inpatient usage, financial difficulties) and caregiver (psychosocial distress, spiritual wellbeing, competency and perceived lack of family support) characteristics. We used data from patients' last 3 years of life. We used multivariable multinomial logistic regressions to predict dyad concordance for preference for home death.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 227 patient-caregiver dyads were analyzed. More than half of the patient-caregiver dyads observations were concordant in their preference for home death (54%). Concordance for home death declined closer to death (from 68% to 44%). Concordant dyads who preferred home death were less likely to include older patients [relative risk ratio, 0.97; P=0.03]. Dyads who preferred a non-home death (hospital, hospice, nursing home, unsure or others) were more likely to include patients with greater symptom burden (1.08; P=0.007) and with spousal caregivers (2.59; P=0.050), and less likely to include caregivers with greater psychosocial distress (0.90; P=0.003) and higher spiritual wellbeing (0.92; P=0.007).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study provides evidence of the dynamic changes in preference for home death among patient-caregiver dyads during last 3 years of patients' life. Understanding the EOL needs of older patients, optimizing home-based symptom control and better caregiver support are recommended to increase likelihood of dyad concordance for home death.</p>","PeriodicalId":7956,"journal":{"name":"Annals of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":"531-541"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141070189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Transitions between skilled home health and hospice for persons living with dementia: a systematic review of literature. 痴呆症患者在专业家庭医疗和安宁疗护之间的过渡:文献系统回顾。
4区 医学
Annals of palliative medicine Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.21037/apm-23-524
Sharon E Bigger, Robin Ann Foreman, Christiana Keinath, Gail L Towsley
{"title":"Transitions between skilled home health and hospice for persons living with dementia: a systematic review of literature.","authors":"Sharon E Bigger, Robin Ann Foreman, Christiana Keinath, Gail L Towsley","doi":"10.21037/apm-23-524","DOIUrl":"10.21037/apm-23-524","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In the United States (US), nearly one third of skilled home health (HH) patients and nearly one half of hospice patients have diagnoses of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), conditions often characterized by a slow decline in cognition and function. Many persons living with dementia (PLWDs) are cared for at home yet may transition between care settings such as skilled HH or hospice, potentially leading to fragmented and poorer care. The purpose of this systematic review was to examine literature pertaining to (I) care transitions for PLWD who are enrolled in skilled HH and hospice in the US, and (II) specifically, care transitions between skilled HH and hospice for PLWD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a systematic review. From March to November 16, 2023, we searched CINAHL, PsychInfo (EBSCO version), and PubMed databases inputting keywords and index terms related to HH, care transition, hospice, and dementia. Articles were included if they were peer-reviewed, primary research studies that were published between 2017-2023 and addressed care transitions for PLWD enrolled in US skilled HH and hospice or transitions between the two settings. We evaluated the quality of each article and extracted relevant data. We described studies by setting while analyzing for similarities and differences between them.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 230 studies, 14 met our inclusion criteria. We found that PLWD are at higher risk for early, unsuccessful discharge from-and readmission to-skilled HH; and PLWD are at higher risk for being discharged alive from hospice. Only one study pertained to care transitions for PLWD between skilled HH and hospice.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We included only studies set in the US, as skilled HH and hospice may differ in policy and practice in other countries, which limits our findings. Future work should explore assessment approaches specific to PLWD that lead to higher quality of coordination of care to, from, and between skilled HH and hospice.</p>","PeriodicalId":7956,"journal":{"name":"Annals of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":"661-673"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140179140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Palliative care tumor board: a narrative review and presentation of a novel conference to enhance collaboration and coordination of pain and symptom management for patients with advanced cancer. 肿瘤姑息治疗委员会:回顾和介绍一个新颖的会议,以加强晚期癌症患者疼痛和症状管理方面的合作与协调。
4区 医学
Annals of palliative medicine Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-04-28 DOI: 10.21037/apm-22-1366
Dana Guyer, Timothy Steinhoff, Aaron W P Maxwell, Tara Szymanski, Sahar Shahamatdar, Mauricio Pinto, Khaldoun Almhanna
{"title":"Palliative care tumor board: a narrative review and presentation of a novel conference to enhance collaboration and coordination of pain and symptom management for patients with advanced cancer.","authors":"Dana Guyer, Timothy Steinhoff, Aaron W P Maxwell, Tara Szymanski, Sahar Shahamatdar, Mauricio Pinto, Khaldoun Almhanna","doi":"10.21037/apm-22-1366","DOIUrl":"10.21037/apm-22-1366","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>The World Health Organization endorses that palliative care has a significant impact on the outcomes of patients with cancer. Integration of palliative care into standard oncology practice has been shown to improve a variety of patient outcomes. In this article, we present our experience with the development of a palliative care tumor board.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Starting in June 2021, we implemented a multidisciplinary palliative care and oncology tumor board focused on pain and symptom management. Complex cases were presented bimonthly. We retrospectively reviewed our experience. Data were collected on the attendees, the case presented, and the resultant therapeutic decisions made.</p><p><strong>Key content and findings: </strong>Between June 2021 and September 2022, tumor board meetings were conducted in person and virtually. An average of twelve people attended, including physicians and nurse practitioners from the palliative care, oncology, interventional radiology, radiation oncology, psychiatry, pediatric palliative care, and physical medicine and rehab disciplines. There were 68 patients presented with the most frequently discussed cancer being breast cancer, followed by lung cancer. A total of 18 patients (26%) were referred for procedure, including 7 patients (10%) for radiation and 11 patients (16%) for interventional procedures, and 34 patients (50%) had medication changes as outcomes of the meeting.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The development of a biweekly palliative care conference modeled after traditional oncologic tumor board meetings allows patients to be discussed in a multidisciplinary setting and commonly results in changes in the management for pain and other cancer-related symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":7956,"journal":{"name":"Annals of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":"558-567"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140911067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Palliative care in kidney transplant recipients with graft failure. 肾移植受者移植失败后的姑息治疗。
4区 医学
Annals of palliative medicine Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.21037/apm-23-413
Maggie Kam-Man Ma, Desmond Yat-Hin Yap, Kwok-Ying Chan, Tak Mao Chan
{"title":"Palliative care in kidney transplant recipients with graft failure.","authors":"Maggie Kam-Man Ma, Desmond Yat-Hin Yap, Kwok-Ying Chan, Tak Mao Chan","doi":"10.21037/apm-23-413","DOIUrl":"10.21037/apm-23-413","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Kidney transplantation is the best renal replacement therapy for patients with end stage kidney disease. It provides longer patient survival and better quality of life than dialysis. The clinical course after kidney transplantation could be complex and variable. Patients may develop various complications or even kidney graft failure. Symptom burden related to uraemia in patients with graft failure, and the side-effects of immunosuppression, cause psychological distress and adversely affect the quality of life of patients. Treatment decisions in patients with graft failure can be challenging to patients and their caregivers. Renal palliative care is an emerging field, but its adoption remains relatively low among kidney transplant recipients with progressive graft failure. In this context, timely consideration and referral for palliative care can improve symptom burden, reduce stress in patients and their caregivers, and facilitate treatment goal setting and advanced care planning. Common barriers to bring palliative care to suitable patients include: (I) misconception in patients, caregivers and healthcare providers that palliative care means abandonment of life sustaining treatment; (II) over-optimistic prognostic assessment and over-aggressive management approach; (III) insufficient awareness and training in palliative care of healthcare professionals; (IV) inadequate access to and insufficient resources in palliative care. Enhanced training and awareness, and further studies, would be needed to optimize the decision process and delineate the benefit of palliative care, and to guide evidence-based practice in the transplant population.</p>","PeriodicalId":7956,"journal":{"name":"Annals of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":"654-660"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141070227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Spirituality in advanced cancer: implications for care in oncologic emergencies. 晚期癌症患者的灵性:对肿瘤急诊护理的影响。
4区 医学
Annals of palliative medicine Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.21037/apm-23-40
Tracy A Balboni
{"title":"Spirituality in advanced cancer: implications for care in oncologic emergencies.","authors":"Tracy A Balboni","doi":"10.21037/apm-23-40","DOIUrl":"10.21037/apm-23-40","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spirituality-defined as \"the way individuals seek and express meaning and purpose and the way they experience their connectedness to the moment, to self, to others, to nature, and to the significant or sacred\"-plays important roles in the setting of serious illnesses such as cancer. The nature of oncologic emergencies, with their attendant imminent threat to life and urgent medical decision-making, renders more salient the frequent role of spirituality in the context of coping, spiritual needs, and medical decisions. Furthermore, these roles highlight the importance of spiritual care: recognition of and attention to patients' and their family's spirituality within medical care. Extant palliative care quality guidelines include spiritual care as a core domain of palliative care provision. Generalist spiritual care requires spiritual history-taking by clinicians and respect and integration of spirituality and spiritual values into medical care. Specialty spiritual care involves the integration of professionally trained spiritual care providers into the care of patients facing oncologic emergencies. Spiritual care is associated with better patient quality of life and greater transitions to more comfort-focused care; among family caregivers, it is associated with greater care satisfaction. Spiritual care is always patient-centered, and hence can be provided by clinicians regardless of their spiritual backgrounds. The integration of spiritual care into the care of patients and their families holds promise to advance holistic care and improve well-being in this setting of oncologic emergencies.</p>","PeriodicalId":7956,"journal":{"name":"Annals of palliative medicine","volume":"13 3","pages":"568-574"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141247353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A narrative review of oncologic emergencies in patients with head and neck cancers: initial management and the role of radiation therapy. 头颈部癌症患者的肿瘤急症综述:初期处理和放射治疗的作用。
4区 医学
Annals of palliative medicine Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.21037/apm-22-1074
Badr Id Said, Antoine Eskander, Anish Kapadia, Zain A Husain
{"title":"A narrative review of oncologic emergencies in patients with head and neck cancers: initial management and the role of radiation therapy.","authors":"Badr Id Said, Antoine Eskander, Anish Kapadia, Zain A Husain","doi":"10.21037/apm-22-1074","DOIUrl":"10.21037/apm-22-1074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>Head and neck cancers (HNCs) encompass a complex group of malignancies with high morbidity, often leading to critical emergencies such as pain crises, airway obstruction and hemorrhage. This review aims to outline an evidence-based approach to the multidisciplinary management of HNC oncologic emergencies with a focus on the role of emergent radiotherapy (RT).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A literature search was performed using Medline, Embase and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases with a focus on three common oncological emergencies using the following keywords: \"head and neck cancer\", \"radiation OR radiotherapy\", \"pain\", \"bleeding OR haemorrhage\", and \"airway obstruction\". All English language articles published up to April 2022 were screened to identify studies pertaining to the management of oncologic emergencies in HNC.</p><p><strong>Key content and findings: </strong>The management of oncologic emergencies in HNC present a unique set of challenges that require early recognition and aggressive treatment. In this narrative review, we summarize the evidence supporting the role of RT in the management of HNC patients presenting with pain crisis, malignant airway obstruction and acute haemorrhage. We demonstrate that while RT can be used as a primary or adjunct therapy, optimal management depends on the involvement of a multi-disciplinary team that includes head and neck surgeons, interventional radiology and palliative care.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>RT plays a critical role in the multidisciplinary management of HNC oncological emergencies. Further prospective and comparative studies are needed to assess optimal management strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":7956,"journal":{"name":"Annals of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":"719-728"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140855803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Management of malignant superior vena cava syndrome. 恶性上腔静脉综合征的治疗。
4区 医学
Annals of palliative medicine Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.21037/apm-23-573
Ronald Chow, Charles B Simone, Andreas Rimner
{"title":"Management of malignant superior vena cava syndrome.","authors":"Ronald Chow, Charles B Simone, Andreas Rimner","doi":"10.21037/apm-23-573","DOIUrl":"10.21037/apm-23-573","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome occurs due to obstructed blood flow through the SVC. It can present clinically on a spectrum, between asymptomatic and life-threatening emergency. Patients commonly report a feeling of fullness in the head, facial, neck and upper extremity edema, and dyspnea. On imaging, patients commonly have superior mediastinal widening and pleural effusion. The majority of cases are due to malignant causes, with non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, and lymphoma the most commonly associated malignancies. When evaluating patients, a complete staging workup is recommended, as it will determine whether treatment should be definitive/curative or palliative in intent. If the patient requires urgent treatment of venous obstruction, such as in the cases of acute central airway obstruction, severe laryngeal edema and/or coma from cerebral edema, direct opening of the occlusion by endovascular stenting and angioplasty with thrombolysis should be considered. Such an approach can provide immediate relief of symptoms before cancer-specific therapies are initiated. The intent of treatment is to manage the underlying disease while palliating symptoms. Treatment approaches most commonly employ chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy depending on the primary histology. Mildly hypofractionated radiation regimens are most commonly employed and achieve high rates of symptomatic responses generally within 2 weeks of initiating therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":7956,"journal":{"name":"Annals of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":"620-626"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140851570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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