By Dr Simon Tavabie – Palliative medicine registrar – Marie Curie Hospice Hampstead @SimonTavabie Football, I understand, is a popular pastime and I’m told that people are rather missing it at the moment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve been warned that, given my abject lack of understanding, I’m unlikely to be able to write […]
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Bafta Win For Medical Documentary Featuring Palliative Care
News: At the BAFTA Cymru Awards in Cardiff on 13th October 2019, ‘Velindre, Hospital of Hope’, a series following patients through treatment for cancer, won the Award for Best Factual Series. Commissioned by ITV Wales, the series was made by Green Bay Media and featured patients as well as healthcare professionals, including Dr Mark Taubert, […]
News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com
Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. SAFETY UPDATES CME T34 syringe pumps now require foam pads to be added to the battery compartment All Caesarea Medical Electronics (CME) T34 Ambulatory syringe pumps in the UK now need […]
Grief at Hay
by Carys Durie and Sioned Edwards 4th year Medical Students, Cardiff University The 2017 Hay Festival of Literature and Arts set in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye, celebrated its 30th anniversary this year. Speakers included the likes of Tracey Emin, Bernie Sanders, Stephen Fry and Ed Balls. Pianist James Rhodes closed the first weekend […]
The four weddings and a funeral guide to the updated palliative care currency
by Dr Ollie Minton, Macmillan consultant and honorary senior lecturer in palliative medicine. I can’t quote the line for obvious reasons but as I trawled through the extensive analysis of the proposed currency I channelled Hugh Grant as Charles looking at his alarm clock at the start of the film. The opening iconic scene of […]
News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com
Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Hot topics Cochrane review: codeine versus placebo for cough in children In this review the authors conclude that codeine (or its derivatives) should not be used for cough in children <12 […]
News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com
Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Safety issues Topical miconazole interaction with warfarin MHRA has highlighted the risk of serious bleeding events in patients taking warfarin and using cream, ointment, powder or oral gel formulations of miconazole. […]
News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com
Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Safety issues FDA enhances warnings for opioids US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced class-wide enhanced labelling warnings for: immediate-release opioid pain medications, in relation to risks of misuse, abuse, […]
News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com
Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Safety issues Desmopressin patient safety alert NHS England has issued a patient safety alert warning (NHS/PSA/W/2016/001) on the risk of severe harm or death when desmopressin is omitted or delayed in […]
News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com
Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Safety issues CME T34 Field Safety Notices CME T34 and leaking extension lines Due to reports of leaking, CME has issued a Field Safety Notice recalling CME syringe extension sets (product […]