A soup in the palliative care：case studies of a service developed by our hospital
10.2512/jspm.10.913
- VernacularTitle:緩和ケアにおける「スープ食」の開発と提供の経験
- Author:
Hideaki Kawabata
;
Naoki Kakihara
;
Chiaki Taga
;
Masanori Nishikawa
;
Yoko Nishitani
;
Kota Asano
;
Mariko Nose
;
Miwa Sakuma
;
Eiichiro Kanda
;
Masako Nishimura
;
Makiko Yamaguchi
;
Osamu Ikawa
;
Katsuhiko Masuda
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Soup service;
palliative care;
Life-supporting soup
- From:Palliative Care Research
2015;10(1):913-916
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
Palliative care team（PCT）, nutrition support team（NST）and office of nutrition in our hospital developed a special soup service, which was served for ten patients faced with terminal cancer. The members of PCT, NST and the Cook served a special soup to ten patients. Nine of them could taste the soup without vomiting although they had anorexia. It was a good result. The number of days from the last day tasting the soup to death or hospital transfer was between 3 and 20 days（12.5 days on average）, and the number of times they could taste the soup was between 1 and 3（2.0 times on average）. Tasting the soup supports the strength of living, and might bring an improvement in spiritual quality of life.
