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Palliative care: the speech medical residents

2015; Volume: 25; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5935/2238-3182.20150072

2238-3182

Abdon Moreira Lustosa, Fernando Dutra, Márcia Adriana Dias Meirelles Moreira, Carla Braz Evangelista, Marcella Costa Souto Duarte, Ana Aline Lacet Zaccara, Fernando André Costa de Souza,

Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues

Introduction: palliative care is provided by a multidisciplinary team that consists of Nursing, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Social work, and Medicine. Although this type of therapy is essential for patients outside of the healing possibilities, it is evident that these caring procedures are little disseminated in medical courses resulting in lack of knowledge by newly graduated doctors. Objectives: to investigate the medical residents’ speech about the goals of palliative care. Methods: this was an exploratory research with a qualitative approach. The study included 19 medical residents in the area of anesthesia and surgery at a hospital in Joao Pessoa-PB. The empirical material was analyzed qualitatively by the collective subject speech technique. Results: it was possible to identify the following core ideas from the speeches of participants: palliative care aimed at improving the quality of life of patients with incurable diseases and at terminal stages; this care seeks to provide comfort and dignity to the patient without therapeutic possibility of cure; they provide relief from symptoms, pain, and suffering for the terminally ill patient. Conclusions: resident physicians understand that the palliative care aimed at improving the quality of life through symptom relief and pain control, through which Palliative care: the speech medical residents Abdon Moreira Lustosa1, Fernando Dutra2, Marcia Adriana Dias Meirelles Moreira3, Carla Braz Evangelista4, Marcella Costa Souto Duarte5, Ana Aline Lacet Zaccara6, Fernando Andre Costa de Souza7 1 Medico.Mestrando da Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul. Sao PauloSP. Anestesiologista e Preceptor da Residencia Medica em Anestesiologia do Hospital Universitario Lauro Wanderley da Universidade Federal da Paraiba – UFPB. Joao Pessoa, PB – Brasil. 2 Quimico. Doutor. Coordenador do Curso de Quimica, professor do Curso de Quimica e do Programa de Mestrado em Ciencias da Saude da Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul. Sao Paulo, SP – Brasil. 3 Medica. Mestranda da Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul. Sao Paulo – SP. Professor do Centro de Ciencias Medicas e Supervisora da Residencia Medica em Anestesiologia da UFPB. Joao Pessoa, PB – Brasil. 4 Enfermeira .Mestranda da Universidade Federal da Paraiba. Membro do Nucleo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Bioetica do Centro de Ciencias da Saude-CCS da UFPB. Joao Pessoa, PB – Brasil. 5 Enfermeira. Doutoranda da Universidade Federal da Paraiba. Professora do Curso de Graduacao em Enfermagem, Centro Universitario de Joao Pessoa/UNIPE. Joao Pessoa, PB – Brasil. 6 Enfermeira. Mestre. Membro do Nucleo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Bioetica CCS/UFPB. Joao Pessoa, PB – Brasil. 7 Academico do Curso de Medicina da Faculdade de Medicina de Nova EsperancaFAMENE. Joao Pessoa, PB – Brasil. Cuidados paliativos: discurso de medicos residentes DOI: 10.5935/2238-3182.20150072