Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Palliative care is a type of specialty medicine for patients who have terminal illnesses. Relief from the symptoms and stress of the illness is the main goal of this kind of care. The intention is to improve the patient's and the family's quality of life.
Expertise in evaluating patients with advanced disease and catastrophic injuries; managing distressing symptoms; coordinating multidisciplinary patient and family-centered care in various settings; utilizing specific frameworks for care, such as hospice; administering to the terminally ill patient; and making ethical and legal decisions regarding end-of-life care are all among the skills this authority possesses.
- Respiratory palliative medicine
- Cardiovascular palliative medicine
- Renal palliative medicine
- Intensive care palliative medicine