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Please Do Whatever It Takes to End Our Daughter's Suffering!
2015,
- HE Léonard de Vinci
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- Article scientifique
Article scientifique
What is the best way to care for a child with severe neurologic impairment who seems to be dying and is in intractable pain? Can we give sedation as we remove life support? Is it ethically permissible to hasten death? In the United States, 5 states have legalized assisted suicide (although only for competent adults). In Belgium and the Netherlands, euthanasia is legal for children under some ...
Appropriate care at the end of life
22 décembre 2017,
- HE Léonard de Vinci
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- Article scientifique
Article scientifique
Rapport du KCE sur les conditions de soins du patient en fin de vie
Efficacy of the Buzzy System for pain relief during venipuncture in children: a randomized controlled trial
2018,
- HE Léonard de Vinci
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- Article scientifique
Article scientifique
Background and aim of the work: procedural pain is a significant issue for paediatric patients. In particular, needle pain is amongst the most stressful for children. Studies revealed that a large number of children do not receive adequate pain prevention during the procedures. Neglecting the prevention of needle pain can cause several psychological effects such as anxiety and phobias, and increase ...
Does the Belgian law legalising euthanasia for minors really address the needs of life-limited children?
2014,
- HE Léonard de Vinci
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- Article scientifique
Article scientifique
The Belgian law on euthanasia for adults was approved in 2002, the same year as laws on patients’ rights and on palliative care, which mostly address the needs of adults. On 13 February 2014, an extension of the euthanasia law that decriminalises euthanasia for children, without age restriction, was approved by the House of Representatives in Brussels (Belgian Ministry of Justice, 2014). In the ...
The Belgian euthanasia law and its impact on the practises of Belgian paediatric palliative care teams
2018,
- HE Léonard de Vinci
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- Article scientifique
Article scientifique
This commentary describes the effect of the Belgian euthanasia law extended to children law on the practices of two paediatric liaison care teams in Belgium (one in Flanders, one in Wallonia). Ethical challenges are discussed based on clinical experiences of those teams, who affirm that in 25 years of practice, they were never confronted with a child requesting euthanasia.
Building Bridges, Paediatric Palliative Care in Belgium: A secondary data analysis of annual paediatric liaison team reports from 2010 to 2014
2018,
- HE Léonard de Vinci
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- Article scientifique
Article scientifique
BACKGROUND: Although continuity of care in paediatric palliative care (PPC) is considered to be an essential element of quality of care, it's implementation is challenging. In Belgium, five paediatric liaison teams (PLTs) deliver palliative care. A Royal Decree issued in 2010 provides the legal framework that defines the PLTs' missions, as ensuring continuity of curative and palliative care between ...
Instruments to Measure Outcomes in Pediatric Palliative Care: A Systematic Review
2019,
- HE Léonard de Vinci
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- Article scientifique
Article scientifique
Pediatric palliative care (PPC) is intended to promote children's quality of life by using a family-centered approach. However, the measurement of this multidimensional outcome remains challenging. To review the instruments used to assess the impact of PPC interventions. Five databases (Embase, Scopus, The Cochrane Library, PsychInfo, Medline) were searched. Inclusion criteria were as follows: ...
Access to paediatric palliative care in children and adolescents with complex chronic conditions: a retrospective hospital-based study in Brussels, Belgium
2019,
- HE Léonard de Vinci
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- Article scientifique
Article scientifique
Paediatric complex chronic conditions (CCCs) are life-limiting conditions requiring paediatric palliative care, which, in Belgium, is provided through paediatric liaison teams (PLTs). Like the number of children and adolescents with these conditions in Belgium, their referral to PLTs is unknown. Objectives: The aim of the study was to identify, over a 5-year period (2010–2014), the number of children ...
Belgian End-Of-Life Care Study Did Not Include French-speaking Units
2020,
- HE Léonard de Vinci
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- Article scientifique
Article scientifique
Dear Editors, We have read with interest the article by Dombrecht et al. (2019) published in your journal in its edition of March 2019. The authors address a sensitive topic, namely the reported attitudes of neonatologists and neonatal nurses in the Flanders region of Belgium regarding complex issues around active end-of-live (EOL) practices for foetuses and neonates facing life-limiting conditions. ...
Do stressful life events impact women's sexual desire?
15 novembre 2017,
- HE Léonard de Vinci
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- Article scientifique
Article scientifique
People confronted to a stressful life event may experience negative consequences
on sexual intimacy (Morokoff and Gillilland, 1993; Hagemeister and Rosenblatt, 1997, Bodenmann et al., 2006). The main hypothesis of the study is that the impact of stressful events on
sexuality, especially on sexual desire, will depend on the subjective reactions to this event.
Fifty-two women responded to several ...