by Dr Nikki Pease, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Velindre NHS Trust, Cardiff, Wales (Cymru) December 2016 saw the launch of the Serious Illness Conversation Cymru project. It is an all Wales project supported with funding from Welsh Government’s End of Life Care Board. The project, which held its pilot teaching event in December 2016 (picture […]
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Songs in the key of Life
by Dr Oliver Minton @drol007 and Dr Mark Taubert @DrMarkTaubert Artistic imagery to depict palliative care was the focus of a recent mysterious blog on the BMJ SPCare blog site, and generated much discussion on social media. The theme of this week’s blog is music. A recent music and memory series on BBC Radio 3 reminded […]
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Free Images In Palliative Care Tired of Trees, Autumn Leaves and Hands? Feel free to use these. No Copyright, no charge, help yourself. The Palliative Skateboard. Brought to you by a few people, including: https://www.instagram.com/pmillustration/ & @Image_wurkz & @DrMarkTaubert Other Images you may use free of copyright: […]
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Risk of acute myocardial infarction with NSAIDs in real world use: bayesian meta-analysis of individual patient data. Bally M, Dendukuri N, Rich B, Nadeau L, Helin-Salmivaara A, Garbe E, Brophy JM. BMJ. 2017 May 9;357:j1909. A bayesian meta-analysis of individual patient data from Canadian and European healthcare databases (61460 cases of acute myocardial infarction and […]
That was the week that was – The @NHS account takeover!
by Dr Ollie Minton Consultant in Palliative Medicine, London, UK Yes, yes, I know I live in an echo chamber/social media bubble and the internet is full of fake news,but unless I imagined the whole experience I was given control of the @NHS twitter account (https://twitter.com/nhs?lang=en) for the week of the 28th August. The […]
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C-reactive protein, symptoms and activity of daily living in patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative care. Amano K, Maeda I, Morita T, et al J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle. 2017 Jun;8(3):457-465. A secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional study looked at the associations between C-reactive protein (CRP) level, manual muscle testing of limbs, symptoms and activities […]
Pejorative Words or ‘The bed blocker with acopia in bed 14 that passed away, having lost her fight’
By Dr Ollie Minton (Consultant in Palliative Medicine, somewhere in London town), Dr Erica Borgstrom (Medical Anthropologist, Open University), Dr Mark Taubert (Consultant in Palliative Medicine, somewhere in Wales) When The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published, readers were not much disturbed by Mark Twain’s use of the n-word, let […]
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Retrospective review of serotonergic medication tolerability in patients with neuroendocrine tumors with biochemically proven carcinoid syndrome. Shi DD, Yuppa DP, Dutton T, et al. Cancer. 2017 Jul 15;123(14):2735-2742 A retrospective review of patients with metastatic carcinoid tumours and elevated serotonin levels who received serotonergic antidepressants was performed to evaluate the effect of serotonergic antidepressants on […]
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Prevalence and incidence of chronic pain with or without neuropathic characteristics in patients with cancer. Bouhassira D, Luporsi E, Krakowski I. Pain. 2017 Jun;158(6):1118-1125. A prospective observational study in France recruited 1805 cancer patients attending out-patients for cancer treatment from 12 oncology units. A clinical examination, DN4 questionnaire and Brief Pain Inventory were used to […]
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 Denosumab: reports of osteonecrosis of the external auditory canal UK MHRA have highlighted that there have been reports of osteonecrosis of the external auditory canal with the use […]