"We're really providing supportive care" because there is no treatment.
Although some overdoses may be treated with specific antidotes, the most common treatment involves providing supportive care to allow the body to metabolize and excrete the toxicant.
BioVex's drugs may help Amgen add direct cancer therapy to its products that provide supportive care to cancer patients, like the bone drug Xgeva.
"Until relatively recently, we could only provide supportive care for full-term babies who suffered brain injury in the labor process," Van Meurs said.
While health-care workers are seeing positive signs from their use of experimental Ebola vaccines, containment relies on providing supportive care when people get sick and contact tracing to keep a close eye on people at risk of getting sick.
The Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation Service consists of an interdisciplinary team that provides supportive care to adult inpatients and their families in the areas of symptom management and medical treatment for those with advanced chronic illness and at the end-of-life.
For many of us, this was our first session of Project Prepare – a 3-session, 8-hour course designed to teach medical students how to provide supportive care for patients in the area of sexual health.
Hospice provides supportive care to terminally ill patients at the end of life.
The ultimate goal of therapy in patients with acute SAH is to control bleeding, provide supportive care in the acute phase, maintain adequate cerebral perfusion, and prevent secondary cerebral insults, especially vasospasm and cerebral infarction [1, 3].
Anemia can be corrected through either treating the underlying cause or providing supportive care through transfusion with packed red blood cells or administration of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), with or without iron supplementation.
The main treatment regimen for patients with sepsis involves restoring microvascular blood flow using intravenous fluid resuscitation within 6 h of patient presentation, identifying and eliminating the source of infection by administering appropriate antimicrobials, and providing supportive care for organ dysfunction [1].
