• Masui · Aug 2013

    [The role of anesthesiologist in the palliative care team in a public hospital].

    • Mika Nakanishi.
    • Department of Anesthesia, Hoshigaoka Kouseinenkin Hospital, Hirakata 573-8511.
    • Masui. 2013 Aug 1; 62 (8): 1009-12.

    BackgroundThe Japanese government promotes palliative care and our hospital has the palliative care team including an anesthesiologist for better end of lives of cancer patients.MethodsFrom the new point of an anesthesiologist, the outcome and characteristics of patients receiving palliative care in our hospital were examined.ResultsFrom August 2010 to March 2012, 93 patients were treated by the team. They were terminal patients whose remaining days were expected to be several months. The most common problem among them was severe pain amenable to opioid administration.ConclusionsAnesthesiologists familiar with pain, sedation and nausea control are important specialists in the palliative care team.

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