Cancer
Dry mouth
What is xerostomia?
Agents that induce a loss of sensation.
What is anesthesia?
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
What are the stages of grieving?
General term used to describe documents that give instructions about future medical care and treatments and who should make the decisions in the event the person is unable to communicate
What are advanced directives?
Conventional Western medicine, biomedicine, and mainstream medicine that relies strongly on science and technology in the treatment of illness.
What is allopathic medicine?
The most common site of cancer in adult women.
What is breast?
An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.
What is the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) definition of pain?
Pathways are nerves that carry messages to the brain for interpretation.
What are afferent (ascending) pathways?
Improve the quality of life for patients and their families by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering.
What is Palliative Care?
The idea that the lower the dose of the medication, the greater its effectiveness.
What is the "law of minimum dose?"
The process by which cancer spreads to distant sites.
What is metastasis?
Examples are using massage, position change, heat or cold applications, and sensory input.
What is the gate control theory?
Focuses on quality of life, comfort, and dignity near the end of life.
Total grief and mourning experience.
What is bereavement?
Focuses on conditions that are treated by correcting the underlying pathologic processes with drugs, surgery, diet, and physical manipulation.
What is conventional medicine?
Low white blood cells.
What is nutropenia?
Pain is experienced in a location different from its source.
What is referred pain?
A group of diseases where the cells are different from the tissue of its origin.
What is Cancer?
Noisy, wet-sounding respiration caused by mouth breathing and the accumulation of mucus in the upper airways.
What is the death rattle?
When non-mainstream practices are incorporated into conventional healthcare.
What is integrative health care?
Normal clotting process exaggerated, which depletes clotting factors.
What is Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)?
What are efferent (descending) pathways?
The point at which a stimulus causes the sensation of pain.
Refocuses health care on allowing natural death in a pain- and symptom-controlled environment with psychosocial support.
What is Palliative Care?
Mandates the reporting of serious adverse events, including deaths, hospitalizations, life-threatening events, persistent or significant disabilities, and birth defects.
What is the "Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act?"