Treatment of nausea and vomiting in terminally ill cancer patients

Drugs

Volumn 68, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2575-2590

  Glare, Paul A ^a   Dunwoodie, David ^b   Clark, Katherine ^c   Ward, Alicia ^d   Yates, Patsy ^e   Ryan, Sharon ^f   Hardy, Janet R ^g  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^g MATER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antihistamines, therapeutic use; Cancer, management; Cholinergic receptor antagonists, therapeutic use; Dopamine receptor antagonists, therapeutic use; Nausea and vomiting, treatment; Serotonin receptor antagonists, therapeutic use

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; APREPITANT; CHLORPROMAZINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLIZINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOLASETRON MESILATE; DOMPERIDONE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GRANISETRON; HALOPERIDOL; LEVOMEPROMAZINE; LORAZEPAM; METOCLOPRAMIDE; OCTREOTIDE; OLANZAPINE; ONDANSETRON; PALONOSETRON; PROCHLORPERAZINE; PROKINETIC AGENT; PROMETHAZINE; SCOPOLAMINE BROMIDE; SCOPOLAMINE BUTYL BROMIDE; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST; TROPISETRON; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AGITATION; ANAMNESIS; ANTICHOLINERGIC SYNDROME; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG USE; DYSTONIA; EDEMA; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EXCITATION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FATIGUE; GASTRIC STASIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; ILEUS; INCREASED APPETITE; INJECTION SITE BURNING; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INJECTION SITE STINGING; INSOMNIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QT PROLONGATION; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESTLESSNESS; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SOMNOLENCE; STOMACH DISEASE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; XEROSTOMIA;

DRUG THERAPY; HUMANS; NAUSEA; NEOPLASMS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VOMITING;

EID: 57749193512     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 00126667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/0003495-200868180-00004     Document Type: Review

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