Hospice and Palliative Care in Mainland China: History, Current Status and Challenges
This article gives an overview of the progress and the current status in multiple aspects of hospice and palliative care in mainland China, and points out the barriers and challenges for its further development in the future. (Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal)
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Value-based Practice: Integration of Cancer Rehabilitation and Palliative Care in Oncology Services
Publication date: December 2018Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal, Volume 33, Issue 4Author(s): Yi ZhuAbstractValue-based care model has been evolving to organize medical services around the patient and provide the full cycle of care for a medical condition. The full cycle of care model encompasses inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation as well as supportive care such as palliative care and nutrition support. Cancer rehabilitation and palliative care have emerged as two important parts of value-based practice for oncology patients. More clinical evidence suggests that early intervention of oncology rehabilitation prog...
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Implement the Palliative Care in Medical Practice of a Tertiary Comprehensive Hospital in China
This article gives an overview of it, and the experiences in team building, promotion, support seaking and fund raising were also discussed in this article. We hope to explore an effective dilivering model of palliative care for end-stage patients that is adaptive to Chinese culture and social environment. (Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal)
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Running a Volunteer Program for Palliative Care in a Chinese Hospital: Our Practice and Experience
This article introduces the process of the establishment and development of palliative care volunteer team in PUMCH, aiming to provide practical references for hospitals in mainland China to develop their own palliative care volunteer team. (Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal)
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Recognition of Palliative Care in Chinese Clinicians: How They Feel and What They Know
ConclusionThe powerless feeling is prevalent in Chinese doctors when facing end-stage patients. Palliative care help them overcome the negative feelings and act more caring in clinic. More careful designed educational strategies that adapt to Chinese actual situation are needed to improve doctors’ cognition on palliative care. (Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal)
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Physicians' Perception of Palliative Care Consultation Service in a Major General Hospital in China
ConclusionPalliative care consultation service in a general hospital is efficacious and acclaimed. The primary care physicians and the PCC members hold positive attitudes to the benefits that the PCC services bring to patients, family members, and physicians themselves. PCC for terminal patients in a general hospital may serve as a good modle for promotion of palliative care in China. (Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal)
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Individualized Aromatherapy in End-of-Life Cancer Patients Care: A Case Report
Publication date: December 2018Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal, Volume 33, Issue 4Author(s): Qian Liu, Xiaohong Ning, Lei Wang, Wei LiuAbstractAs one of the methods of palliative care, aromatherapy has been applied gradually in clinical nursing work in China in recent years. Through aromatherapy, terminal cancer patients can get not only relieves of physical symptoms, but also spiritual relaxation and peace, thus have improved quality of life at the end stage. In this paper, we report in detail about how aromatherapy was applied for symptom control in a cancer patient with unknown primary malignancy and multiple m...
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Current Technologies of Synthetic Biosensors for Disease Detection: Design, Classification and Future Perspectives
Publication date: December 2018Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal, Volume 33, Issue 4Author(s): Xue Chen, Yi Lv, Rongqian WuAbstractSynthetic biology aims to endow living cells with new functions by incorporating functional gene networks into them. By overexpressing, blocking and rewiring native gene pathways, synthetic biologists have harnessed this promising technology to reprogram cells to perform diverse tasks such as drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing, gene therapy and tissue engineering, etc. In this review, we focus on current technologies of synthetic biosensors for disease detection. We start wi...
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Longitudinal Measurement of Hemodynamic Changes within the Posterior Optic Nerve Head in Rodent Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy
ConclusionsContinuous blood perfusion reduction was found in rNAION, with significant alteration in 14 days after disease induction. Our results provided important information for understanding the hemodynamic changes in rNAION. (Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal)
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Combined Effects of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Depression on Spatial Memory in Old Rats
ConclusionsCOPD in comorbidity of depression could induce spatial memory deficit in old rats. The mechanisms might be related to the overloaded and free radical metabolic imbalance. These results suggest a potential therapeutic target for comorbidity of COPD and depression in geriatric patients. (Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal)
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
An Early Pregnant Chinese Woman with Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis Succeeding in Induction of Labor in the Second Trimester
Publication date: December 2018Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal, Volume 33, Issue 4Author(s): Xuefang Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Nan LiAbstractCerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a rare condition in early pregnancy. A 22-year-old Chinese woman at 10 weeks of pregnancy requested induced abortion and was diagnosed as CVST for a severe headache accompanying with nausea and vomiting. The patient was treated successfully with anticoagulation, followed by amniocentesis, and finally succeeded in induction of labor safely. The diagnosis, treatment and prognosis for this rare condition are discussed in this paper. (Source:...
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Resuscitation of Septic Patients with Target-and-endpoint Protocol: A Retrospective Study from a Chinese Tertiary Hospital ICU
ConclusionsThis study suggested that in the resuscitation of sepsis and septic shock patients in the ICU, the target values did not need to be within the “normal range” recommended by early-goal directed therapy. The “target-and-endpoint” protocol, which aimed for personalized goals, deserves more consideration. (Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal)
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - October 10, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
RNA-binding Protein UNR Promotes Glioma Cell Migration and Regulates the Expression of Ribosomal Protein L9
ConclusionsUNR could bind to the 3'UTR of PTEN and RPL9 in glioma cell lines, therefore promoting glioma cell migration and regulating the expression of RPL9. Here, we establish a link between UNR and RPL9 protein, which will provide new ideas for the further study of glioma. (Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal)
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - October 10, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Urinary Myeloperoxidase to Creatinine Ratio as a New Marker for Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection
ConclusionsMCR is positively correlated with WBC counts and could be served as a promising biomarker for diagnosis of UTI. MCR could be even used for initial inference of infectious bacteria types of UTI. (Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal)
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - October 10, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Clinical, Laboratory and Imaging Features of High Altitude Pulmonary Edema in Tibetan Plateau
ConclusionsIn the present research, men were more susceptible to HAPE than women, and in the process of HAPE, the lesions of the right lung were more serious than those of the left lung. Some indicators of routine blood test and blood biochemistry of HAPE patients changed. (Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal)
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - October 10, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
