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Palliative Care for Patients with Nonmalignant Respiratory Disease
Nishkarsh Gupta1, Rakesh Garg1, Vinod Kumar1
1Department of Anesthesiology, Dr. BRAIRCH, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Abstract:
Nonmalignant respiratory diseases are chronic and life-limiting conditions that need holistic palliative care. Such patients not only have a variety of physical symptoms such as dyspnea, pain, cough, depression, and anxiety, but also have a number of psychosocial and spiritual issues, which are not addressed to by us. This leads to a poor quality of life. Hence, these patients require supportive palliative care to relieve their sufferings, but unfortunately such care is not available to them in our country. In this article, we have tried to discuss the barriers to the provision of palliative care to such patients and suggested some measures to overcome them.
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