15. TAKEN CARE PALLIATIVE

When I hear the word palliative, I come me to the head many things.  I believe that palliative it is not to recover, it is to relieve. It is a term that much is in use in the field of the oncology, for taken care to terminal patients. When these patients are in his terminal phase, receive taken care palliative to relieve the suffering and to improve in possible the quality of life the time that they still have.

There are taken cares that are used in oncology patients, but also in other pathologies in terminal phase. Any patient that this dying and need to relieve the pain that this provoking his disease, it can request taken care palliative.

I believe that there would have to be in every hospital a unit of taken care palliative, to be able to help all the persons to have pain. Worse unfortunately this is not like that.

More than the half of the persons who die a year in Spain needs taken care palliative at the end of his life, but not they all receive the specialized attention that they need. According to the last information of the Spanish Company of Elegant Palliative (SECPAL), nowadays there are approximately 400 specialized equipments but 700 would need.

The palliative care would have to carry out, not only in the terminal stage, but very much before, to avoid all the possible suffering.

In these units there are people specialist in the treatment of these persons in his last days. In the agony that they suffer last days. In the support family. Very important point. For many persons, his family is his great support. And they need that they are with them until the end.

The family situation is characterized by a great emotional impact. The patient's family is sad by the end of your loved one. But at the same time, they want to appear strong in front of him, to help.

The personal health has to face the fears of the family.

In my opinion, many times, the family needs more psychological support, that the patient, because of all the care required by the patient.

To conclude I want to say, that the patients are afraid of dying alone, and the major tranquillity that you can give them, is to say to him that in his last minutes that I and his family are going to be with him. Also it is important to expire all his final wills.

Finally, I would put a video. When I have seen, I have felt sadness, but also show the coping of families and patients. URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqyM8UeS2hY

Bibliography:

1. Gandara, A. Cuidados Paliativos. Sociedad Escañola de Cuidados Paliativos. [Revisado el 11 de mayo de 2013]. Disponible en: http://www.secpal.com/presentacion/index.php