{"id":1061,"date":"2015-07-18T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2015-07-13T15:03:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T15:03:03","slug":"news-and-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2015\/07\/18\/news-and-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com-78\/","title":{"rendered":"News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palliativedrugs.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.palliativedrugs.com<\/a>, the world\u2019s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hot topics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cochrane review: Palliative interventions for controlling vaginal bleeding in advanced cervical cancer<\/strong><br \/>\nThis new Cochrane review (<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/14651858.CD011000.pub2\/full\" target=\"_blank\">CD011000<\/a>) has been published in full on-line.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drug updates<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Co-danthramer and strong co-danthramer capsules discontinued<\/strong><br \/>\nNapp has discontinued co-danthramer 25mg\/200mg (dantron\/poloxamer 188) and strong co-danthramer 37.5mg\/500mg (dantron\/poloxamer 188) capsules. Stocks are expected to last until the end of June 2015 and December 2015 respectively. There are no other manufacturers of co-danthramer capsules. The suspension formulations of co-danthramer are still available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ketamine supply update<\/strong><br \/>\nPfizer have confirmed that currently all strengths of ketamine injection, i.e. including the 50mg\/mL (10mL) vials that have more recently been available, are out of stock, and they are unable to give a date of availability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Latest additions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PCF updated monographs summary (June 2015)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe online Palliative Care Formulary is being continually updated. The following monographs have been updated during June 2015 and supersede those in the publication of the 5th edition of the Palliative Care formulary (PCF5) and PCF5 epdf. They can be accessed from the formulary section of the website.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 05: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palliativedrugs.com\/shop\/combinationpackages.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fentanyl (transmucosal)<\/a><br \/>\nChapter 13: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palliativedrugs.com\/shop\/combinationpackages.html\">Ketamine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a full list of all the monographs updated since the publication of PCF5, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palliativedrugs.com\/download\/PCF5%2B_updated_monographs_list_1506_final_sc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Follow us on\u00a0twitter @palliativedrugs for the latest updates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prepared by Sarah Charlesworth and Andrew Wilcock<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world\u2019s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. &nbsp; Hot topics Cochrane review: Palliative interventions for controlling vaginal bleeding in advanced cervical cancer This new Cochrane review (CD011000) has been published in full on-line. &nbsp; Drug updates Co-danthramer and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2015\/07\/18\/news-and-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com-78\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2833],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}