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- Title
Artificial nutrition and hydration in end-stage cancer patients - A systematic review.
- Authors
Denisa, Pașca
- Abstract
The following article is a review of the specialized literature on artificial nutrition and hydration of patients with cancer in the terminal stage with the aim of showing what is its specificity. The objectives pursued were the selection of relevant articles and works and the identification of the particularities of nutrition and hydration of patients with terminal cancer. The selected bibliographic material comes from the online databases Academia Edu, PubMed and Google Scholar, being retained 19 scientific papers and articles published in Romanian and English, from 2008 to 2022, and was subjected to the inductive content analysis method, leading to the following results: the specificity of nutrition and hydration for the terminal cancer patient lies in its artificial nature, in the fact that it is a medical treatment that allows a person to receive nutrition (food) and hydration (fluids) when he is no longer able to take them orally, to sustain life or health, through various artificial means: intravenous approach, nasogastric tube, surgical feeding devices, including percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy and radiologically inserted gastrostomy. There are controversies regarding the usefulness / need of artificial nutrition and hydration in patients with terminal cancer, as well as ethical and legal considerations that need to be considered. The conclusion of the specialized literature review on the subject is that there is a specificity of nutrition and hydration of the patients with cancer in terminal stage, which consists mainly in their artificial character. The various practical, ethical, and legal considerations related to their use must take account of this specific character.
- Subjects
TUBE feeding; FEEDING tubes; ARTIFICIAL feeding; PERCUTANEOUS endoscopic gastrostomy; PERSISTENT vegetative state; LITERATURE reviews; HYDRATION; CANCER patients
- Publication
Paliatia: Journal of Palliative Care, 2023, Vol 16, Issue 4, p31
- ISSN
1844-7058
- Publication type
Article