American Journal of Internal Medicine

Special Issue

Palliative Care in Internal Medicine

  • Submission Deadline: Feb. 28, 2021
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: John Lidemberto Cardenas Cardenas
About This Special Issue
Palliative care is a discipline of few years of growth within the multiple areas of medicine. However, the growing concern for being, the dignity of the person, ethical values, such as justice and autonomy, aspects such as quality of life and the end of life, therapeutic proportionality and quality at the end of life has made palliative care one of the main actors in the multidisciplinary management of patients with advanced diseases, not only of an oncological type, but also of a non-oncological type.
The increase in patients with non-oncological diseases exceeds the prevalence of oncological diseases, generating in total a greater number of deaths from non-oncological diseases than from oncological diseases.
It has been shown that there is a great deficiency in medical training to face patients at the end of life, even more so, in patients with chronic non-oncological diseases, where there is no accuracy in prognostic criteria, where the diseases are accepted as benign and not It has a concept of progression and mortality, where it is difficult to clearly recognize states of non-return and futile and disproportionate strategies, where there is no capacity to speak of death, of the expectations of the disease, of the slopes in life, of Spiritual and personal aspects that may be more valuable than advanced and invasive treatments, and that may have a greater impact on patients' quality of life.
This supplement aims to provide tools that lead to reflect on the needs of patients with chronic non-cancer diseases supported. Provide tools in the approach and management of these patients based on evidence.
Aims and Scope:
  1. Palliative care in chronic kidney disease
  2. Palliative care in heart failure
  3. Palliative care in neurologic disorders
  4. Palliative care in hepatic disease
  5. Palliative care in chronic pulmonary disease
  6. Palliative in other chronic disorders
  7. Palliative care in intensive care
  8. Palliative care in pandemic age
  9. Palliative care in the end of life
Lead Guest Editor
  • John Lidemberto Cardenas Cardenas

    Pain & Palliative Care Specialist, Pablo Tobon Uribe Hospital, Medellin, Colombia

Guest Editors
  • Rene Estupiñan

    Department of Pain & Palliative Care, El Rosario Clinic, Medellin, Colombia

  • Nora Saldarriaga

    Pain & Palliative Care Specialist, Pablo Tobon Uribe Hospital, Medellin, Colombia

  • Sandra Parra

    Department of Internal Medicine, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogota, Colombia

  • Claudia Buitrago

    Department of Pain & Palliative Care, Fundacion Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud, Bogota, Colombia

  • Juan Guillermo Santacruz

    Departmenf of Pain & Palliative Care, Santafe of Bogota Foundation, Bogotá, Colombia

  • Maria Victoria Mera

    Department of Pain & Palliative Care, Sanitas International Organization, Reina Sofia Clinic, Bogotá, Colombia

  • Andres Noriega

    Department of Pain & Palliative Care, Marly Clinic and Colina Clinic, Bogotá, Colombia

  • David Gonzalez

    Department of Pain & Palliative Care, National Institute of Cancerology, Bogotá, Colombia