The BMJ recently expressed its support for the notion that the UK’s leading medical bodies, including the BMA and Royal Colleges, abandon their opposition to assisted dying in favour of a neutral stance. The move comes as a recent poll undertaken by Dignity in Dying revealed that of 1000 GPs surveyed, 62% supported a shift […]
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Perspectives of patients, family caregivers and physicians about the use of opioids for refractory dyspnea in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Rocker G, Young J, Donahue M, Farquhar M, Simpson C. As opioids are recommended for the treatment of refractory dyspnoea in patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) but not always prescribed, this […]
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. Hot topics NICE issues clinical guideline on prescribing opioids in palliative care The UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued a clinical guideline (CG140) on the safe and effective prescribing of strong […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com , the world’s leading palliative care website. Drug updates Tapentadol DTB review The Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) has featured a review on the evidence for tapentadol (Palexia®, Grünenthal) for moderate to severe acute pain. The bulletin highlights some of the limitations of the […]
New NICE guidelines aim to address patient concerns about the use of opioids in advanced disease.
The UK’s Institute for Clinical Excellence has released new guidelines which aim to standardize the use of opioids in advanced disease pain management. It is estimated that each year in the UK some 300,000 people are diagnosed with cancer and 900,000 have heart failure. As well as this, thousands live with long-term chronic conditions such […]
The Working of an Integrated Community Palliative Care Team
Guest writers Anna MacPherson and Louise Forman of St Catherine’s Hospice, Preston, discuss the experience of working within a community palliative care team in light of recent changes to the structure of community palliative care. Community based palliative care services are growing in importance. As surveys repeatedly tell us most people want to die […]
Dialysis patients receive aggressive treatment during last month of life
A research letter published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine has reported that patients with end stage renal disease tend to receive very aggressive treatment during their last month of life. The researchers from the University of Washington analysed data on almost 100,000 Medicare patients who were treated with dialysis, and found that during […]
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. Safety updates NPSA RRR: harm from flushing of nasogastric tubes before confirmation of placement The UK National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has issued a Rapid Response Repost (RRR) following the deaths of two patients since 10 […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Hot topics WHO guidelines for treating persistent pain in children The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a package on the pharmacological treatment of persisting pain in children with medical illnesses, which replaces the previous guidelines ‘Cancer […]
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Articles of interest in other scholarly journals Click on the article headings to view abstracts Discontinuation of antidepressants in people with dementia and neuropsychiatric symptoms (DESEP study): double blind, randomised, parallel group, placebo controlled trial Sverre Bergh, Geir Selbæk, Knut Engedal The effect of stopping SSRIs in patients with dementia, and neuropsychiatric symptoms (but […]