The Final Frontier: Palliative Care in Space is an Inevitability

As space exploration becomes increasingly common, palliative care for astronauts will require greater consideration. All aspects of palliative care need to be specifically adapted for astronauts. For example, addressing additional circumstances such as inability to see loved ones from Earth will be...

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Autores principales: Tan, Sheryn, Tran, Vienna, Stretton, Brandon, Gupta, Aashray, Kovoor, Joshua, Bacchi, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10566210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36846866
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08258597231159839
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Stretton, Brandon
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Kovoor, Joshua
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description As space exploration becomes increasingly common, palliative care for astronauts will require greater consideration. All aspects of palliative care need to be specifically adapted for astronauts. For example, addressing additional circumstances such as inability to see loved ones from Earth will be an important part of meeting their psychological and spiritual needs. A different approach to pharmacological management of end-of-life symptoms is also warranted due to changes in human physiology and pharmacokinetics in space.
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spelling pubmed-105662102023-10-12 The Final Frontier: Palliative Care in Space is an Inevitability Tan, Sheryn Tran, Vienna Stretton, Brandon Gupta, Aashray Kovoor, Joshua Bacchi, Stephen J Palliat Care Letter to the Editor As space exploration becomes increasingly common, palliative care for astronauts will require greater consideration. All aspects of palliative care need to be specifically adapted for astronauts. For example, addressing additional circumstances such as inability to see loved ones from Earth will be an important part of meeting their psychological and spiritual needs. A different approach to pharmacological management of end-of-life symptoms is also warranted due to changes in human physiology and pharmacokinetics in space. SAGE Publications 2023-02-27 2023-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10566210/ /pubmed/36846866 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08258597231159839 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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