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  • Chapter 27 - Palliative Care Prescribing

  • from Part 5 - Central Nervous System
  • Edited by Hugh Montgomery, Robert Shulman, Mayur Murali
  • Book:
    Surviving Prescribing
    Published online:
    08 June 2020
    Print publication:
    25 June 2020, pp 109-112

  • Summary

    There is no second chance to improve the quality of life of a dying patient. Getting it right allows a good death and leads to an uncomplicated bereavement for the family. However, there is much more to palliative care prescribing than just instituting a syringe driver: this chapter provides important information on opioid use (including how to calculate breakthrough doses and converting oral morphine to subcutaneous formulations), antiemetics and other commonly used drugs in palliative care.