comfort care
Pain relief priority
Comfort care is medical treatment focused on relieving pain and symptoms rather than curing disease or prolonging life.
It prioritizes quality of life when recovery is unlikely or when a patient chooses not to pursue aggressive intervention: After the diagnosis, they decided on comfort care.
The term often applies to end-of-life situations and overlaps with palliative care and hospice.
- pain reliefEasing of discomfort
- pain managementReducing patient suffering medically
- life reviewReflecting on past experiences
- terminal illnessIncurable, deadly medical condition
- do not resuscitateOrder refusing emergency revival
counseling · spiritual guidance · grief therapy · presence · holding hands · gentle touch · stress reduction · living will · last wishes · quality of life · bereavement support · meditation · soothe · dignity · healthcare proxy · mindfulness · calm · quiet
- deathdead, deceased, corpse, mortality, demise
- nursing carevital signs, medication administration, patient assessment, dressing change, infection control
- deathbedlast breath, last words, final moments, final breath, dying wish
- elder caregerontologist, geriatrician, geriatric nurse, geriatric medicine, assisted living
- End-of-Lifeadvance directive, DNR, do not resuscitate, hospice, life support
- healthcare planningtreatment plan, advance directive, living will, health proxy, discharge plan
comfort careaggressive treatment
Forceful medical intervention
definitive treatment · chemotherapy · radiation therapy · surgical intervention
comfort careintensive care
Specialized treatment for severe illness
full code · life support · mechanical ventilation · critical care · resuscitation
comfort, care, comfortable, uncomfortable, comfortably, uncomfortably, comforter, comforting, comforted