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At PalliativePros we invite all palliative researchers to connect and explore with us as we develop products that bridge gaps and provide improved innovative palliative care approaches that contribute to the quality of life of our patients living with advanced life-threatening disease and disorders.
PalliativePros invites the Hospice Home Palliative Care industry to think of the RespRelief Pump as an additional tool in the field nurse’s car stock, where all nurses will have 24/7 access to a suction pump as the need arises.
Unfortunately, there is not a “Gold Standard of Care” when it comes to oral suctioning of upper respiratory secretions, especially at end of life (EOL) processes. There appears to be a void in research pursuing conclusive evidence from the nurse caregiver, patient, and family perspective of the effects in traditional hospice home palliative care at EOL with end stage cardiorespiratory disease patients.
Since guidelines still rely on professional decision making when it comes to whether or not to gently suction upper airways in a drowning crisis, this procedure is rarely done. A reason may rest on the absence of an easy and less costly way to provide this care.
Dr. Juliano Ferreira Arcuri, a researcher who studies respiratory secretion control in the palliative care context, considers that researchers may continue finding better ways to treat respiratory secretions in palliative care situations using the RespRelief Pump.
In a research article published in BMC Palliative Care, Dr. Juliano Ferreira Arcuri* states, “In some palliative care situations, excessive respiratory secretions may cause discomfort and increase dyspnea. Moreover, its control is still a problem by health professionals and is stressful for family members. New devices, such as the RespRelief Pump must be targeted by researchers.”