Palliative Care in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Epidemiology & Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2022) | Viewed by 10164
Special Issue Editors
Interests: quality of life; end-of-life care; symptom assessment; ethical decisions; pain management; fatigue
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic has made a huge impact on the health care systems in all countries and regions of the world. Palliative care has been impacted as well, and has sometimes even been marginalized with the focus on the overwhelming need for pulmonary and intensive care.
Palliative care is able to contribute significantly to the management of the pandemic, with its expertise on ethical decision making, symptom control for patients not able to or not willing to access intensive care and/or mechanical ventilation, and psychosocial and spiritual care for patients and family caregivers suffering from the lack of emotional support with isolation and quarantine.
Inclusion of palliative care has been recommended for humanitarian emergencies in general by the World Health Organization and human rights advocates.
Selected publications from research in the first wave of the pandemic in Italy and UK have shown the need for palliative care and the effectiveness of the palliative care approach.
Original papers and reviews will be solicited on the palliative care perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes the impact of the pandemic on the provision of palliative care, palliative care interventions for patients with COVID-19 infections, and contributions of palliative care expertise to the pandemic management.
Prof. Dr. Lukas Radbruch
Prof. Dr. Claudia Bausewein
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- palliative care
- palliative medicine
- hospice care
- dyspnoea
- symptom control
- triage
- psychosocial suffering
- isolation
- emotional support
- spiritual support
- pandemic
- humanitarian crisis
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