Sentences with phrase «patients near death»

Two provisions in the act explicitly address hospice care, a common way for patients near death to receive palliative services.

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To tackle «death anxiety» among terminally ill hospital patients, designer Frank Kolkman has created a device that simulates a near - death experience using virtual reality.

Similarly, Balboni wrote, the cancer patients who relied on private, unspoken religious beliefs to manage their illness were «nearly three times more likely to receive intensive life - prolonging care near death and less likely to enter hospice during the final weeks of life» than those without a pronounced religious sense.

First described in ancient times, near - death experiences, or NDEs, happen when patients are critical or when their hearts have briefly stopped.

Injured patients with decreased travel times to the nearest trauma center had 16 % lower odds of death, while injured patients affected by a closure had 26 % higher odds of death.

Just as in Morse's study, van Lommel examined the patients» records for any factors traditionally used to explain near - death experiences — such as setting, drugs, or illness — and found no evidence of their influence.

Using the patient's own scans in the simulation could greatly assist doctors performing surgery near critical parts such as the optic nerve and carotid artery, where damage could cause permanent debilitation or death.

Not all of these experiences actually coincide with brushes with death — one study of 58 patients who recounted near - death experiences found 30 were not actually in danger of dying, although most of them thought they were.

For instance, the feeling of being dead is not limited to near - death experiences — patients with Cotard or «walking corpse» syndrome hold the delusional belief that they are deceased.

Looking at the patients» blog posts over time, the researchers also found that their use of positive emotion words actually increased as they neared death, while their use of negative emotion words did not.

In such patients whose cancer has not yet spread, a rapid rise in prostate - specific antigen (PSA) levels warns of the near - term development of metastases, the major cause of complications and death from prostate cancer.

The passage of the catheter into the bladder requires sedation or light anesthesia unless the patient is near death.

Empathy and my near death experience leads me to believe in the patient's instincts and complaints.