Terminal Care and Pain Control

Abstract

Terminal care may be defined as the management of patients in whom the advent of death seems certain and not too far off, in whom the diagnosis has been accurately made and in whom care has turned from the curative to the palliative. Terminal illness, of course, is not specific to malignant disease. Yet cancer is often associated with death and dying, and with pain and suffering. It is for this reason that terminal care is discussed here.