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2019 international consensus on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care science with treatment recommendations : summary from the basic life support; advanced life support; pediatric life support; neonatal life support; education, Universiteit Gent

J Soar, I Maconochie, MH Wyckoff, TM Olasveengen, EM Singletary, R Greif, R Aickin, F Bhanji, MW Donnino, ME Mancini, et al.
The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation has initiated a continuous review of new, peer-reviewed, published cardiopulmonary resuscitation science. This is the third annual summary of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations. It addresses the most recent published resuscitation evidence reviewed ...

Influence of health interventions on quality of life in seriously ill children at the end of life Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent

Veerle Piette, Joachim Cohen, Luc Deliens, Jutte Van Der Werff Ten Bosch, Kim Beernaert

BACKGROUND: Seriously ill children suffer from numerous symptoms at the end of their lives, including pain, anxiety, and restricted communication. There are currently no comprehensive overviews of which health interventions have proven benefits and which have proven detrimental effects on the quality of life of children in an end-of-life context. In order to identify potential quality indicators to eventually improve care, a systematic review ...

Life as Art, Art as Life and Life’s Art: the “Living Poetics” of Italian Modernism KU Leuven

Carmen Van den Bergh, Monica Jansen, Srecko jurisic
© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2016. This article studies the key concept of 'life' within the context of Italian modernism, understood in the broad sense of a network of cultural responses in the period from 1861 until the mid-1930s. Following Roberto Esposito's suggestion that the transversal category of life is distinctive for Italian "living thought" (Esposito), the 'living poetics' here exposed focuses on three key literary ...

Meaning in life matters for older adults with Alzheimer’s disease in residential care: associations with life satisfaction and depressive symptoms KU Leuven

Laura Dewitte, Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Jessie Dezutter
Objectives:To examine whether previously established associations between experiences of meaning in life on the one hand and life satisfaction and depressive symptoms on the other hand are transferable to a population of older residential care residents with Alzheimer’s disease (AD).Design:Cross-sectional study using questionnaires administered in a structured interview format.Setting:Nine residential care settings in Flanders, ...

The effect of early and systematic integration of palliative care in oncology on quality of life and health care use near the end of life Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Gaëlle Vanbutsele, Simon Van Belle, Veerle Surmont, Martine De Laat, Roos Colman, Kim Eecloo, Eline Naert, Marc De Man, Karen Geboes, Luc Deliens, et al.

PURPOSE: This study evaluated the effect of early integrated palliative care (PC) in oncology on quality of life (QOL) near the end of life and use of health care resources near the end of life.

METHOD: Patients with advanced cancer and a life expectancy of approximately 1 year were randomly assigned to either early and systematic integration of PC into oncological care (intervention) or standard oncological care alone (control). QOL ...

Geometric service life modelling and discounting, a practical method for parametrised life cycle assessment KU Leuven

Waldo Galle, Niels De Temmerman, Karen Allacker, Ronald De Meyer
Purpose To evaluate the long-term advantage of reusing building elements, including reduced material consumptionand waste production, life cycle assessments are purposeful.To translate these assessments in relevant design advices, it is necessary to model accurately the service life of the considered elements and acknowledge the related uncertainties.Practical methods to do this are nevertheless lacking. In reaction,this paper proposes a new ...

The overall quality of my life as a sibling is all right, but of course, it could always be better': quality of life of siblings of children with intellectual disability: the siblings' perspectives Universiteit Gent

Tinneke Moyson, Herbert Roeyers
Background The concept of family quality of life is becoming increasingly important in family support programmes. This concept describes the quality of life of all family members and the family system as a whole, but only the opinion of the parents has been included. The opinion of the siblings has been incorporated in the opinions of the parents, although research has shown that there is discordance between parents' and siblings' reports. The ...

Comparative life cycle assessment and life cycle costing of lodging in the Himalaya KU Leuven

Silu Bhochhibhoya, Massimo Pizzol, Wouter Achten, Ramesh Kumar Maskey, Michela Zanetti, Raffaele Cavalli
© 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Purpose: The main aim of the study is to assess the environmental and economic impacts of the lodging sector located in the Himalayan region of Nepal, from a life cycle perspective. The assessment should support decision making in technology and material selection for minimal environmental and economic burden in future construction projects. Methods: The study consists of the life cycle assessment and ...

Life cycle assessment and life cycle costing of road infrastructure in residential neighbourhoods KU Leuven

Damien Trigaux, Lien Wijnants, Frank De Troyer, Karen Allacker
The built environment consists of a huge amount of infrastructure, such as roads and utilities. The objective of this paper is to assess the life cycle financial and environmental impact of road infrastructure in residential neighbourhoods and to analyse the relative contribution of road infrastructure in the total impact of neighbourhoods.Various road sections are analysed based on an integrated life cycle approach, combining Life Cycle Costing ...