Hyperpolarisation-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels control neuronal firing thresholds. Together with sodium channels, they accumulate at sites of nerve injury, creating ectopic foci of ...

Purpose Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) plays a crucial role in its management. This review summarizes ...

It is estimated that one in ten palliative care patients may benefit from a peripheral nerve block, and although many hospices have growing links and collaboration with pain colleagues, delays still ...

Orthostatic hypotension is a relatively common medical diagnosis and can be debilitating for the patients it affects. There is a range of treatment options, though only one medication is licensed in ...

Objectives This study aimed to investigate the relationship between nurses’ spiritual well-being and their competence in providing spiritual care, and to identify influencing factors among Turkish ...

Background Sex and intimacy are expressed by many patients to be essential at the very end of their lives. Different definitions of intimacy are presented in the literature, with studies reporting ...

Introduction The rising global prevalence of cancer reveals significant regional disparities in palliative care adoption. While some countries have incorporated palliative care into their systems, ...

Objectives There have been many models of providing oncology and palliative care to hospitals. Many patients will use the hospital non-electively or semielectively, and a large proportion are likely ...

Aim To assess the mortality rate and the use of palliative sedation (PS) in an advanced long-standing acute palliative care unit (APCU) Methods The charts of patients who died and eventually received ...

Design All deaths of patients (n=2176) known to the specialist palliative care service over a 5-year period were examined through service evaluation to compare the actual place of death with the ...

Background and Aims Emergency admissions to hospital increase in the last year of life and can be avoidable (Barbera, Taylor &, Dudgeon, 2010. CMAJ. 182: 563). In 2016 there were over 1.6 million such ...

Objectives Heart failure (HF) is a prevalent condition associated with poor quality-of-life and high symptom burden. As patients reach ceilings of survival-extending interventions, their priorities ...