Palliative Care for Nephropathic Patients
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Palliative care, Hospice care, Chronic Kidney Disease, End-Stage Renal Disease, Acute Kidney Injury, Renal Replacement TherapyAbstract
A new light has recently been shed on palliative care, especially, on its multidisci-plinary approach developed to improve the Quality of life of seriously ill patients and their families. However, palliative care is still often mistakenly referred to as an end-of-life care and wrongly interchanged with hospice care. Nephropathic patients usually present a decrease in expectancy and Quality of life and may benefit from palliative care as opposed to hospice care. Palliative care requires a tight collaboration among different health care professionals, patients and their families, to share diagnosis, prognosis, realistic goals of treatment and therapeutic decisions. Several approaches may be attempted to improve the Quality of life of chronic neph-ropathic patients, such as palliative dialysis, conservative management and peritoneal dialysis. For example, personalized goals and a wider concept of adequacy of extracorporeal treatment are the bases of palliative dialysis. In specific subgroups of frail patients, the pharmacological conservative management could be more appropriate than extracorporeal treatment, as the for-mer reduces the burdens derived from invasive procedures. Finally, peritoneal dialysis could be an important option for frail patients to avoid an aggressive extracorporeal treatment while maintaining a gentle solute and fluid control. However, only limited evidences are available on palliative and hospice care performed on patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). Herein, the main variables affecting the medical decision-making on palliative care in nephropathic patients are described, and the different approaches available to improve quality of palliative care during Chronic and Acute Kidney Injury are analyzed.
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