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{{DX tag | Palliative Care | PALLIATIVE CARE | 904-00 | '''Critical Care and/or Medicine''' | Currently Collected }} | {{DX tag | Palliative Care -update pending | PALLIATIVE CARE | 904-00 | '''Critical Care and/or Medicine''' | Currently Collected }} | ||
'''[[Palliative care]]''' is care including pain and symptom management, social, psychological, cultural, emotional and spiritual support as well as caregiver and bereavement support that is given to a person with progressive, advanced, or chronic disease with little or no prospect of cure whose death is apparent however is not immediately imminent. ([http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/palliat/index_e.html Health Canada website]) | '''[[Palliative care]]''' is care including pain and symptom management, social, psychological, cultural, emotional and spiritual support as well as caregiver and bereavement support that is given to a person with progressive, advanced, or chronic disease with little or no prospect of cure whose death is apparent however is not immediately imminent. ([http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/palliat/index_e.html Health Canada website]) | ||
Palliative care might be provided even if [[DC Treatment|disease treatment has been discontinued]] in an ICU patient. | Palliative care might be provided even if [[DC Treatment|disease treatment has been discontinued]] in an ICU patient. | ||