Palliative medicine update: a multidisciplinary approach.

摘要: Palliative medicine is a young specialty that officially recognized in relatively few countries. The World Health Organization published an adapted definition 2002, describing palliative care as approach improves the quality of life patients and their families facing problems associated with life-threatening illness. When accent shifting from curative to palliative, goal management maintenance or improvement patient's life. different dimensions multitude types be provided require multidisciplinary, well-functioning team, effective communication clear task division between primary hospital care. Considering complexity for incurable patients, multidisciplinary prerequisite balance intervention options. Optimal functioning team requires excellent training, description tasks responsibilities each member. More more advanced planning introduced care, focusing on early identification trajectory prevention annoying symptoms, hoping this results improved individual patient, less useless technical investigations better end-of-life place patient his family desires.