Abstract

GUINART ZAYAS, Nancy. How to give attention to the terminal patient's family. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2006, vol.22, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3038.

The lack of medical literature about the terminal patient has been a constant complaint of our family physicians and students, much more when it refers to the comprehensive attention they give to this family. That's why our medical personnel has lived so different situations in the terminal patient-family relation due to the delay to find an adequate treatment for both, in particular for the family. Even at worst, our physicians and nurses should try to share the family suffering, somethig that it is not difficult, since this suffering leaves indelible marks on this professional team. Definitely, anxiety is what makes the communication fluidity different in the family-medical team relation.

Keywords : Comprehensive care; family; terminal patient; family-terminal patient relation; anxiety.

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