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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care

Jul 26, 2019

This episode features Dr Amara Nwosu (Palliative Care Institute Liverpool and Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool, Liverpool, UK).  Medical robots have mainly been used to support surgical procedures and for a variety of assistive uses in dementia and elderly care. There has been limited debate about the potential...


Jul 26, 2019

This episode features André Filipe Ribeiro (Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal). The number of patients with morbidities and other complex injuries due to burns has grown over the years. This kind of burn injuries can have a high impact in the physical and psychological health, cause social transformations and...


Jul 22, 2019

This episode features Rebecca Anderson (Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department,  University College London, London, UK).  Poor communication from healthcare professionals is a common complaint from relatives of patients at the end-of-life. Communication with relatives at this time is important for high quality...


Jul 19, 2019

This episode features Professor Miriam Johnson (Hull York Medical School, UK). People with heart failure have poor access to palliative care. People with advanced heart failure have poorer access to palliative care than people with cancer and the evidence base in support of heart failure palliative care is less...


Jul 3, 2019

This episode features  Dr Bridget Candy and Dr Megan Armstrong (Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK) 
 
 
Conventional therapies are not always sufficient to provide satisfactory relief of symptoms to those at an advanced stage of...