Pain Management in a Terminally Ill Patient with a Surrogate Decision-maker: A Challenge

When health care proxies are in charge of pain management, it may become very difficult to address the patient’s pain if the health care proxy has misconceptions about analgesics. We report a case of an 87-year-old lady who was found to be pulseless, and after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitatio...

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Autores principales: Syed, Tausif, Mansourian, Susan, Tirumanisetty, Pratyusha, Abdullah, Abdullah, Alweis, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6797022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31632878
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5429

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6797022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31632878
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5429

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