Telemedicine allowed greater access to the healthcare system, reduced the need to employ emergency services, improved assessment/control of symptoms, and provided greater orientation and confidence in the care given by family members through early and proactive interventions. Web conferencing proved to be a good adjuvant to home monitoring of symptoms, complementing in-person assistance.
Palliative Care: the person's value and its history in HUPE The Núcleo de Cuidados Paliativos (NCP) (Nucleus of Palliative Care) began its work at the Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto in 2009, providing ongoing care to cancer patients referred from other services within the hospital. The model of care is multidisciplinary, person and family (caregiver) centered, focusing on technical excellence and humanistic approaches to control symptoms and tend to physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. In this period 903 patients were assisted. The performance of the professionals on the team-physician, psychologist, physical therapist, and music therapist-is presented according to their own perspectives and skills in daily practice. This NCP history includes assistance
Palliative care and family and community medicine: concepts and intersections Despite technological advances, many diseases are not amenable to curative therapy, becoming chronic and progressives, having death as his hopeless outcome. It is estimated that about 20 million people still die in the world without access and attention which could minimize his suffering and symptoms of the disease, chronic in the majority of the cases. Palliative Care (PC) is a growing area; however, the actual number of professionals trained to deal with the patient without expectation of curative therapy is insufficient.Through a narrative bibliographical review of the conceptual pillars of the Family Health Strategy, Primary Health Care and the
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