Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Oct 2023
A core outcome set for interventions to prevent and/or treat delirium in palliative care.
Delirium is a serious neurocognitive syndrome which is highly prevalent in people approaching the end of life. Existing trials of interventions to prevent or treat delirium in adults receiving palliative care report heterogeneous outcomes. ⋯ Using a rigorous consensus process, we developed a core outcome set comprising four delirium-specific outcomes for inclusion in future trials of interventions to prevent and/or treat delirium in palliative care.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Oct 2023
Olanzapine for non-chemotherapy related nausea and emesis in patients with a palliative care consult.
Current palliative care guidelines lack a specific treatment algorithm for nausea and emesis. Olanzapine is an atypical antipsychotic with antiemetic activity that's recommended in the guidelines for the treatment of chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting, but outside of oncologic indications there is a lack of research. ⋯ This retrospective review demonstrated benefit to utilizing olanzapine for nausea and emesis in palliative care patients and should be considered to aid in symptom management.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Oct 2023
Letter Case ReportsHiccups at the end of life in Parkinson's disease: a case report.