緩和ケア

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　今日はずっと緩和ケアの本のバイト編集仕事やってて忙しくって、雨だったし、ヤな感じだった。でも何かの折にまた使うことがあるかもしれないから、確認した事項のリンク貼って、引用しておこう。

　http://www.who.int/cancer/palliative/definition/en/

WHO Definition of Palliative Care

Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Palliative care:

  • provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms;
  • affirms life and regards dying as a normal process;
  • intends neither to hasten or postpone death;
  • integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care;
  • offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death;
  • offers a support system to help the family cope during the patients illness and in their own bereavement;
  • uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counselling, if indicated;
  • will enhance quality of life, and may also positively influence the course of illness;
  • is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications.

　WHOによる緩和ケアの定義。

　今日は一日じゅう、看護師さんたちが書いた原稿の整理をしておりましたわけですが、なんででしょうね、看護師さんの書く日本語って独特のよじれ方をしていることが多いんですね。ま、バイトバイト。愚痴ってないで働け働け＞自分