Dr. Firaz Hosein is an American board-certified Internal Medicine (Primary Care) Physician with a sub-specialty certification in the field of Palliative Care.
Palliative Care
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Palliative Care
Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to specialized medical and nursing care for people with life-limiting illnesses. It focuses on providing relief from the symptoms, pain, physical stress, and mental stress of a terminal diagnosis. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the person and their family. Evidence as of 2016 supports pallative care’s efficacy in the improvement of a patient’s quality of life.
Palliative care is provided by a team of physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other health professionals who work together with the primary care physician and referred specialists and other hospital or hospice staff to provide additional support. It is appropriate at any age and at any stage in a serious illness and can be provided as the main goal of care or along with curative treatment. Although it is an important part of end-of-life care, it is not limited to that stage. Palliative care can be provided across multiple settings including in hospitals, at home, as part of community palliative care programs, and in skilled nursing facilities. Interdisciplinary palliative care teams work with people and their families to clarify goals of care and provide symptom management, psycho-social, and spiritual support.
Physicians sometimes use the term palliative care in a sense meaning palliative therapies without curative intent, when no cure can be expected (as often happens in late-stage cancers). For example, tumor debulking can continue to reduce pain from mass effect even when it is no longer curative. A clearer usage is palliative, noncurative therapy when that is what is meant, because palliative care can be used along with curative or aggressive therapies.
Medications and treatments are said to have a palliative effect if they relieve symptoms without having a curative effect on the underlying disease or cause. This can include treating nausea related to chemotherapy or something as simple as morphine to treat the pain of broken leg or ibuprofen to treat pain related to an influenza infection.
Please review the checklist requested by your USEMO specialist, and gather as many reports as possible before submitting for an opinion. If more information is needed, you will be contacted by the physician.
Palliative Care Checklist
1- Please provide us with a brief statement regarding:
⁃ Your current medical problem
– Indicate the onset/ duration of this problem
2⁃ Please indicate the questions you like addressed regarding this problem
3- Please provide us with any available reports from your treating physician that include:
⁃ Brief medical / surgical history
⁃ Your current medical problem and/or treatment plan
4- Please provide us with any available reports of :
⁃ Lab results from blood tests such as CBC, CMP.
⁃ Radiographic data such as X-rays, CT scan, MRI.
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