Lijec̆nic̆ki vjesnik
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Lijec̆nic̆ki vjesnik · May 1995
[Complications after prolonged intubation in patients with head trauma].
In this study, 72 patients with head injury, hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) were analyzed. All of them required prolonged intubation. Every patient was initially intubated. ⋯ The patients in the first group developed no complications. Pulmonary infections prevailed in the second group. We conclude that early postinjury tracheotomy is associated with a lesser incidence of complications than prolonged intubation in neurosurgical patients.
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Hospice/palliative care, as the World Health Organization has recognized, is the active, total care of patients whose disease no longer responds to curative treatment, and for whom the goal must be the best quality of life for them and their families. St. Christopher's hospice London, the first modern hospice institution was founded by Dame Cicely Saunders in 1967. ⋯ The point is on the hospice workers education and organization of the first stationary hospice unit. The fundamental problem will be solved when our society will accept that hospice/palliative medicine is an imperative of actual moment and the part of croatian inclusion into european or worldwide trends. The acceptance of palliative medicine is the acceptance of new medicine directed to the whole man and his surroundings, instead of involving only single or two diseases.