[Perioperative care of palliative patients by the anesthetist : Medical, psychosocial and ethical challenges.]

This article addresses these areas of conflict and the aim is to enable anesthetists to provide the best possible perioperative care to this vulnerable patient group with the goal to maintain quality of life and keep postoperative recovery as short as possible. PMID: 23836144 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23836144?dopt=Abstract

Source: Der Anaesthesist - July 10, 2013 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Lassen CL, Abel R, Eichler L, Zausig YA, Graf BM, Wiese CH Tags: Anaesthesist Source Type: research

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