10.20.2015
Clinical Alerts
10.05.2015
Effect of Dextromethorphan-Quinidine on Agitation in Patients With Alzheimer’s Dementia
Patients with Alzheimer’s disease frequently experience agitation and other behavioral problems. With heightened awareness on the harms and lack of benefit of prescribing antipsychotics in...
10.05.2015
FDA Safety Warning: Medications Stored in Becton-Dickinson (BD) Syringes
Recently, BD Medical announced to their customers that their oral plastic syringes are not FDA-cleared for storage of compounded pharmaceuticals or for the purpose of...
09.24.2015
Injectable Morphine Drug Shortage
Manufacturers of injectable morphine alerted the industry on September 18th of a shortage of select strengths of morphine injectable including the 10mg/mL strength, commonly used...
09.16.2015
Availability of Heart Failure Medications in Hospice Care
Symptom management for patients with end-stage heart failure (HF) is demanding. Additionally, the medications most effective for palliation are cardiac-specific (i.e., intravenous furosemide and inotropes)...
09.01.2015
Palliative Care for the Seriously Ill
“Palliative care” is a term often identified as synonymous with “hospice”. Although hospice programs provide the vast majority of this type of care, palliative care...
08.11.2015
Palliative Chemotherapy and Quality of Life at the End of Life
Palliative chemotherapy is prescribed to patients with cancer at end of life to alleviate symptoms and perhaps improve survival. Holly Prigerson and colleagues from the...
07.21.2015
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS): Three new palliative care Fast Facts are now available!
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality palliative care services for people facing serious...
07.09.2015