The impact of therapeutic opioid agonists on driving-related psychomotor skills assessed by a driving simulator or an on-road driving task: A systematic review. Ferreira DH, Boland JW, Phillips JL, Lam L, Currow DC Palliat Med. 2018 Apr;32(4):786-803 This is a systematic review to assess the effect of opioids on driving safety in patients with chronic […]
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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 MHRA alert: Denosumab The UK MHRA has sent out two drug safety updates regarding denosumab use: risk of new primary malignancy when used for the prevention of skeletal-related events […]
Feel the Bern: The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) 2018 research conference roundup, y’all!
by Dr Ollie Minton, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Brighton, UK I couldn’t get to Bournemouth for this year’s Association for Palliative Medicine conference so went for complete palliation (soins palliatifs, dude) in Switzerland, instead. The conference side-programme did not, on this occasion, involve a day visit to the Dignitas clinic, which I did point out […]
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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 Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) alert: T34 syringe pumps CME has identified that there can be a ± 2mm overall size difference between battery brands used […]
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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 Drug name confusion MHRA have highlighted the risk of confusion between similar sounding or similar looking drug names. This follows more reports, including cases with fatal outcomes, of confusion […]
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From will to live to will to die: oncologists, nurses, and social workers identification of suicidality in cancer patients. Granek L, Nakash O, Ariad S, Chen W, Birenstock-Cohen S, Shapira S, Ben-David M Support Care Cancer. 2017 Dec;25(12):3691-3702 A qualitative study in Israel, interviewed 20 nurses, 23 oncologists and 18 social workers and used grounded […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 37,000 members from 153 Countries. Safety updates Updated advice on switching brands of anti-epileptics MHRA has updated their advice, published in 2013 (see our news item), regarding switching between different manufacturer’s products. For anti-epileptic drugs listed […]
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Effect of an Indwelling Pleural Catheter vs Talc Pleurodesis on Hospitalization Days in Patients With Malignant Pleural Effusion: The AMPLE Randomized Clinical Trial. Thomas R, Fysh ETH, Smith NA, Lee P, Kwan BCH, Yap E, Horwood FC, Piccolo F, Lam DCL, Garske LA, Shrestha R, Kosky C, Read CA, Murray K, Lee YCG. JAMA. 2017 […]
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Respiratory adverse effects of opioids for breathlessness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Verberkt CA, van den Beuken-van Everdingen MHJ, Schols JMGA, Datla S, Dirksen CD, Johnson MJ, van Kuijk SMJ, Wouters EFM, Janssen DJA Eur Respir J. 2017 Nov 22;50(5). The effect of opioids on respiration in patients with advanced disease and chronic breathlessness was systematically […]
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Is the rationale more important than deception? A randomized controlled trial of open-label placebo analgesia. Locher C, Frey Nascimento A, Kirsch I, Kossowsky J, Meyer A, Gaab J. Pain. 2017 Dec;158(12):2320 2328. Healthy volunteers were recruited to an experimental heat pain analgesia randomized controlled trial. Forty healthy volunteers in each group were randomly assigned to […]