Editorial Office, Journal of Internal Medicine, Belgium
Review
Managing Bleeding in Patients Receiving Palliative Care in the General Internal Medicine Ward: a Systematic Review
Author(s): Atharva Zhainagul*
In general internal medicine wards, palliative care patients—those with at least one chronic, lifelong medical condition—and hospice patients—those with less than six months to live—are frequently admitted. This review aims to provide the internist with a strategy for dealing with bleeding in this population by using a clinical case. First, some helpful guidance on platelet transfusions will be given. Second, the treatment of bleeding in site-specific circumstances (including cutaneous ulcers, gastrointestinal-urogenital tract bleeding, and ENT/pulmonary bleeding) will be covered. Finally, a management algorithm for catastrophic bleeding is suggested. In conjunction with regional recommendations, electronic databases such as EMBASE, Pubmed, Google Scholar, and the Cochrane Library were studied as primary resources to find papers examining platelet transfusions .. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/1840-4529.23.15(2).1-2
