Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Delirium in Patients With Cancer: A Preliminary Study.

To compare the efficacy of antipsychotics (APs) for delirium treatment in patients with cancer, 27 patients treated with 1 of the 4 APs, haloperidol (HPD), risperidone (RIS), olanzapine (OLZ), and quetiapine (QTP), were divided into 2 groups: long half-life (T1/2; HPD, RIS, and OLZ) versus short T1/2 (QTP) or the multiacting receptor-targeted APs (MARTAs; OLZ and QTP) versus the non-MARTA (HPD and RIS). The symptom severity was evaluated by the memorial delirium rating scale (MDAS) on days 0, 3, and 7 following intervention. Significant improvements in total MDAS scores were found in all groups on day 3.

Sublingually administered scopolamine for nausea in terminally ill cancer patients.

Purpose: The primary aim of this study was to clarify the effect of sublingual scopolamine on the intensity of nausea.

Patients And Methods: This was an open uncontrolled study, and the study participants were cancer patients consecutively admitted to a palliative care unit in Japan. When the patients had nausea, they were administered a solution of scopolamine at 0.

The influence of initial target effect-site concentrations of propofol on the similarity of effect-sites concentrations at loss and return of consciousness in elderly female patients with the Diprifusor system.

Background: Whether effect-site concentrations of propofol (Cep) at loss of consciousness and return of consciousness (LOC and ROC, respectively) in elderly women using Diprifusor are similar is unclear. We investigated whether differences in initial target Cep (Ctarget) alter similarities between Cep values at LOC and ROC.

Materials And Methods: In this study, female patients (n = 58, age = 72.

Can "steroid switching" improve steroid-induced musical hallucinations in a patient with terminal cancer?

The patient was a 57-year-old woman with malignant pleural mesothelioma. She had a past history of anxiety neurosis but not had any history of otological diseases. On admission to our hospice (day 1), she complained of dyspnea and wheezing associated with the progression of her underlying disease.

[Two cases of transfusion-related acute lung injury following massive transfusion during the perioperative period].

Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is a serious complication of transfusion of blood and blood components. TRALI is reported to be the most common cause of transfusion-associated death. TRALI has increasingly become known in the medical community.