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Patients under hospice care deserve to have symptoms of all types managed, and this should include wound management. This article describes evidence-based assessment and current management of wounds in palliative care and identifies the gaps in research related to palliative wound management. COMMON TYPES OF PALLIATIVE CARE WOUNDS Pressure Wounds
The aim of this paper is to provide a literature review of current wound care practices for the management of chronic wounds in palliative care and end‐of‐life patients, focusing on the control of wound‐related symptoms for comfort and improved quality of life (QOL).
Palliative wound care is a philosophy of wound management that prioritizes comfort over healing and attends to the emotional distress these wounds can cause. Intervention strategies focus on management of symptoms such as pain, odor, bleeding, and exudate.
21 sty 2021 · To stay in alignment with hospice’s mission of comfort care, the entire hospice team must operate with vigilance, assessing and documenting wounds and condition changes in detail, maintaining proper preventive measures and developing plans of care that consider the patient’s needs and desires.
1 lis 2023 · To conduct a scoping review with qualitative synthesis to define palliative wound care in terms of its conceptual framework, goals, principles, components, and differences from general wound management, and provide a new definition of palliative wound care based on this scoping review.
20 lip 2018 · Wound Care at End of Life is intended to be a quick reference guide for palliative management of wounds in hospice care. The authors and collaborators have systematically reviewed and...
This article will discuss the ethical responsibilities and challenges of providing wound care for surgical wounds, pressure ulcers, and wounds associated with cancer as well as wound care in home health compared to end of life.
