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Resultados: 21

The 2023 WSES guidelines on the management of trauma in elderly and frail patients

World j. emerg. surg; 19 (1), 2024
The trauma mortality rate is higher in the elderly compared with younger patients. Ageing is associated with physiological changes in multiple systems and correlated with frailty. Frailty is a risk factor for mortality in elderly trauma patients. We aim to provide evidence-based guidelines for the manage...

Development of palliative care clinical practice guidelines and referral care pathways for primary care practitioners in Pakistan

BMC palliat. care; 23 (1), 2024
Despite a large burden of life-limitingillness, there exists a dearth of services of palliative care in Pakistan. International guidelines have questionable applicability in Pakistan due to the socioeconomic differences. We generated a protocol describing the process of developing comprehensive palliativ...

Assessment, diagnosis, care and support for people with dementia and their carers - 2023

Dementia is a clinical syndrome of cognitive decline that includes a range of cognitive and behavioural symptoms caused by a variety of underlying pathophysiological processes. This includes Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, mixed dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia.1,...

Clinical management of COVID-19: living guideline - 15 September 2022

The WHO COVID-19 Clinical management: living guidance contains the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for the clinical management of people with COVID-19. Providing guidance that is comprehensive and holistic for the optimal care of COVID-19 patients throughout their entire illness is impor...

Doporučené postupy pro diagnostiku a léčbu Parkinsonovy nemoci
Diagnosis and therapy of Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PN) is a chronic, incurable, disabling disease; it is the most common degenerative disease of the nervous system. PN is characterized by a set of clinical manifestations that include slowness of movement (bradykinesia), resting tremor, rigidity, and postural instability. PN is a comp...

Brain tumours (primary) and brain metastases in adults: Last updated 29 January 2021

This guideline covers diagnosing, monitoring and managing any type of primary brain tumour or brain metastases in people aged 16 or over. It aims to improve diagnosis and care, including standardising the care people have, how information and support are provided, and palliative care. In January 2021, we...

Palliatiivse ravi juhend (I osa): sümptomaatiline ravi
Guidelines for palliative care (Part I): symptomatic treatment

According to today's principles of palliative care, the availability and continuity of palliative care must be guaranteed to patients and their relatives from the diagnosis of the disease at every stage of treatment. Not all patients may require the same amount of palliative care at each stage of treatme...

End of life care for infants, children and young people with life-limiting conditions: planning and management - update information

This guideline covers the planning and management of end of life and palliative care in for infants, children and young people (aged 0–17 years) with life-limiting conditions. It aims to involve children, young people and their families in decisions about their care, and improve the support that is ava...

Motor neurone disease: assessment and management - update information

This guideline covers assessing and managing motor neurone disease (MND). It aims to improve care from the time of diagnosis, and covers information and support, organisation of care, managing symptoms and preparing for end of life care. This guideline includes recommendations on: recognition and referra...