Garduño EA, Ham MO, Méndez VJ, Rodríguez GJ, Díaz GE, Reyes LC

Language: Spanish
References: 8
Page: 75-80
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ABSTRACT

Objective. To report the main causes related to the palliative care (PC) during the advanced phase of a disease and to mention the PC followed in the hospital. Material and methods. 200 clinical files of children with PC in the terminal phase or its illness were revised. Information was obtained regard age, sex, diagnosis, presence of pain, distress, depression and another symptoms, and the qualification by the Karnofsky scale for quality of life. Also was obtained information about the family. Results. Most of the patients had less than a year age (31.5%) and the preschool children were (29.5%). The neurological disturbance (39.5%) and cancer (34%) were the most frequent diagnosis related to PC and there leukaemia where most stricken followed by neurological tumours and genetic syndromes. Pain was the most frequent symptom (55%) principally due to solid tumors and 20% of the children had depression. In 40% of their families there was separation or divorce of parents. Conclusions. Be sides of the informations related to PC it seems than the extreme gravity of this children could be associated to the separation or divorce of parents.

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