Nausea and vomiting in palliative care.

Palliation of nausea and vomiting in malignancy.

symptoms that can cause enormous misery for cancer patients, undermining quality of life and contributing to weakness, anorexia and nutritional problems.1 Evidence-based recommendations for the management of treatment-induced emesis are available, but the management of nausea arising as a consequence of the disease itself is less well researched. This article summarises palliative care guidelin...

ABC of palliative care. Nausea, vomiting, and intestinal obstruction.

Treating nausea and vomiting in palliative care: a review

Nausea and vomiting are portrayed in the specialist palliative care literature as common and distressing symptoms affecting the majority of patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. However, recent surveys indicate that these symptoms may be less common and bothersome than has previously been reported. The standard palliative care approach to the assessment and treatment ...

ACUPUNCTURE FOR PALLIATIVE CARE About palliative care

Palliative care is the active holistic care of patients with advanced progressive illness, such as those with advanced cancer, end-stage renal disease, AIDs, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD).(WHO 2002) Management includes treatments for pain and other symptoms (e.g. fatigue, nausea and vomiting, breathlessness, anxiety, depression, vasomotor symptoms, xerostomia), as well as th...

Acupuncture is underutilized in hospice and palliative medicine.

Acupuncture is a complementary and alternative medical modality. A considerable body of acupuncture research has accumulated since 1998. Acupuncture has been integrated into palliative care settings in the United Kingdom but is yet to be widely offered in the United States. The literature was searched to identify clinical trials involving acupuncture, palliative care, hospice, chronic obstructi...