Publications by authors named "Diane M Vancamp"
Purpose: Anticholinergic medications for reducing noisy respirations in adult hospice patients are evaluated.
Summary: Anticholinergic medications used to reduce noisy respirations from retained secretions in terminal patients include atropine, glycopyrrolate, scopolamine, and scopolamine derivatives. Pharmaceutical anticholinergic treatment of retained secretions in hospice patients was evaluated in six studies, three of which compared the efficacy of glycopyrrolate to scopolamine in actively dying patients.