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authors: Sirohiya, Prashant; Ratre, Brajesh
title: COVID-19 pandemic and limited palliative care response: “Lack of comfort care”
date: 2020-07-09
journal: Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med
DOI: 10.1016/j.accpm.2020.07.002
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doc_id: 875644
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India too and authorities should make a specific plan to take further steps in this direction.

As India is trying to contain the spread of COVID-19, we must be ready for the possibility that measures to prevent the spread of the virus might fail. Integrating palliative care to COVID-19 care is a step forward to ensure the palliative care needs of the patients and their family members. Palliative care can prevent health care workers from the physical burden and mental health issues that might be aggravated when ethically difficult decisions are needed in the rationing of intensive care.

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