Abstract

PAIS, Carmen; SILVA, Rita; CARVALHO, Sónia  and  MORAIS, Anabela. A Good Death: To Recognize the End-of-Life in Time. Medicina Interna [online]. 2019, vol.26, n.3, pp.238-246. ISSN 0872-671X.  https://doi.org/10.24950/rspmi/Revisao/253/18/3/2019.

At a time of increasing life expectancy and greater than ever patients with chronic and incurable diseases in a medicine that focus on healing, it is often difficult to determine that a patient is dying and in a situation of impending death. Impeding-death is based on a syndrome of progressive functional decline, oscillations of consciousness, multi-organ failure and refusal to feed. This article aims to carry out a theoretical review on impeding-death by reviewing its characteristics and setting in current medicine.

Keywords : Attitude to Death; Death; Palliative Care; Terminal Care.

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