Palliative care, what’s it?
In: Other
If a patient has a terminal medical condition (they are going to die), and there are no treatments that can be done to cure the problem/disease, then they are “made comfortable” with palliative care.
Palliative care patients are either kept in the hospital or sent home (depending on the severity of their condition), and prescribed medication (including painkillers) so that they don’t suffer during their last days. The medication can’t cure (nothing can), so it’s there just to reduce pain and suffering. Typically, if sent home, a nurse will come by to visit and check up (medically) on the patient, and possibly there’s therapy also offered to the patient and the family to deal with the emotional side of the patient’s eventual (sometimes soon) death.
Latest Answers