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ecj-11013	Poggiali, Erika; Bertè, Raffaella; Orsi, Luciano	When emergency medicine embraces palliative care	2022	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1675	87	55	Hrev_master In Italy Emergency Medicine (EM) and Palliative Care (PC) are still considered two opposite disciplines with two opposite end- points: saving lives for EM clinicians, and taking care of end-stage patients for palliative care physicians. According to the WHO, PC is “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychological and spiritual”.1 EM is defined as “a primary specialty established using the knowl- edge and skills required for the prevention, diagnosis and manage- ment of urgent and emergency aspects of illness and injury, affect- ing patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of undifferenti- ated physical and behavioural disorders”.2 Traditionally the domi- nant paradigm in EM has been therapies to maintain life at all costs, often without attention to a patients’ prognosis, treatment values, and preferences for care.	cache/ecj-11013.pdf	txt/ecj-11013.txt