Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Hot topics Consultation on end of life care guidance The Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People (LACDP), set up in response to the recommendations from the independent report into the Liverpool Care Pathway (see news […]
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December 2013 J Pain Symptom Manage. 2013. [Epub ahead of print] Factors Associated With Survival After Opioid Rotation in Cancer Patients Presenting to an Outpatient Supportive Care Center Reddy A, Yennurajalingam S, Cruz MD, Palla SL, Wang X, Kwon JH, Frisbee-Hume S, Bruera E This preliminary ad hoc analysis of a previously published […]
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November 2013 Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013 Jul 22;7:CD003868. [Epub ahead of print] Oral morphine for cancer pain Wiffen PJ, Wee B, Moore RA This further update of a Cochrane review, first published in 2003 and updated in 2007, aimed to determine the efficacy and toxicity of oral morphine in relieving cancer pain. […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Safety updates EMA confirms metoclopramide restrictions The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has re-examined the recommended changes for metoclopramide in adults and children that it made in July 2013, following a request from one of the marketing authorization […]
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Shortcuts November 2013 J Palliat Med. 2013 Jul;16(7):741-4 The Role of Benzodiazepines in Breathlessness: A Single Site, Open Label Pilot of Sustained Release Morphine Together with Clonazepam Allcroft P, Margitanovic V, Greene A, Agar MR, Clark K, Abernethy AP, Currow DC This single site, open label pilot study assessed the safety and feasibility […]
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Shortcuts October 2013 Support Care Cancer. 2013 Jul 20. [Epub ahead of print] Handgrip strength predicts survival and is associated with markers of clinical and functional outcomes in advanced cancer patients Kilgour RD, Vigano A, Trutschnigg B, Lucar E, Borod M, Morais JA The relationship between handgrip strength (HGS) and survival, quality of […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Safety updates EMA restricts metoclopramide dose and duration of use The European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended changes to the dose and duration of use of metoclopramide in adults and children in July 2013, following a review. They […]
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Shortcuts August 2013 Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2013. 110(12):195-202 Dying with dementia: symptom burden, quality of care, and place of death Pinzon LC, Claus M, Perrar KM, Zepf KI, Letzel S, Weber M. This cross-sectional study contacted surviving relatives of 5000 randomly selected people who died in mid-2008 in a single German state. Relatives […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Safety updates Updated IV Ondansetron dosing for CINV The UK MHRA has given new guidance for the administration of IV ondansetron based on further information on the risk of dose-dependent QT interval prolongation, (first reported in August […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Safety updates Codeine restricted use in children The MHRA have restricted the use of codeine in children following the results of a European safety review (see our news item 16-10-2012). Codeine is now contraindicated in: all children […]