Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine & Trauma
Trauma is taken into account due to the physical harm or injury brought on by an outside force. Trauma significantly contributes to severe symptoms like chronic pain. In the United States, trauma continues to be the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Regardless of the disease's stage or course of treatment, palliative care is the branch of medicine that provides care for patients who have serious, severe, or life-limiting illnesses or injuries.
Palliative care aims to reduce or eliminate suffering by skilled managing pain symptoms and promoting higher order cognitive function. Palliative and trauma care will be incorporated, with little or no consideration for the end outcome, to help patients and their families through difficult but usually life-altering times.
- Accidental emergency
- Emergency medicine
- Traumatic stress
- Trauma emergency
- Geriatric emergency medicine