Pediatric Palliative Care
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The pediatric palliative care (PPC) is an emerging subspecialty of pediatrics which, since its beginnings in the 1990s, seeks to improve the quality of life of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases; including though not exclusively terminal ones, since the interdisciplinary care offered by PPC also benefits patients with pathologies for which there is possible treatment with curative purposes, but whose probability of failure is very high. Its main objective is to provide comfort to pediatric patients, as well as spiritual and physical assistance through pharmacological and non-pharmacological relief of symptoms, social support and accompaniment to their families. Its inclusion in the integral management of the child does not imply the exclusion of therapeutic measures with a curative purpose; in fact, a joint work of both the treating team and the palliative team can be achieved in most cases. Many groups around the world have been concerned with the research and development of this field. Despite this, in several parts of the world there is a significant lack of knowledge of the current literature on this subject which generates a series of barriers that, along with existing prejudices and myths in society, limit the access to PPC.
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