How to provide care for patients suffering from terminal non-oncological diseases: barriers to a palliative care approach.

Despite the seemingly evident pertinence of palliative care for patients suffering from non-oncological long-term life-threatening diseases, everyday clinical practice is far from that assumption. This study aims to explore palliative care service provision for these patients in Spain. Patients, family caregivers and healthcare professionals were interviewed, individually or in a group, aiming at identifying barriers in the provision of care and strategies to overcome them.

[Perilymph gush. A complication of stapedectomy].

Report of an unusual complication of stapes surgery, called "perilymph gush", resolved with improved hearing and no vertigo.

[Gushers. Perilymphatic leaks].

We report an unusual complication of stapedectomy called <>. It was resolved and the patient's hearing level improved without vertigo.

[Auditory assessment in a protocol of concurrent carboplatin and irradiation use in fractionated therapy].

Possible ototoxicity related with a hyperfractionated concurrent chemo-radiation schedule was studied in 36 patients with head and neck cancer. The schedule consisted of two daily fractions, each consisting of 5 mg/m2 of carboplatin plus 115 cGy. Therapy was given 5 days a week for 7 weeks up to a total dose of 700 mg carboplatin and 8050 cGy.

[Basal meningoencephalocele: a case report].

An 8-year-old boy who had been operated for craniosynostosis was remitted from the pediatric service for two bacterial meningitis episodes. The cause was a meningoencephalocele of the right nasal cavity.