| Comforting Patients Nearing the End of Life:
Topical Medications to Relieve Pain and Nausea & Vomiting |
 The goal of palliative care is the achievement of the best possible quality of life for patients and their families by providing relief from pain and other distressing symptoms.
Pain Management
Effective pain management is best achieved by a team approach and individualized therapy. Besides relieving suffering, pain control is crucial because even when the underlying disease process is stable, uncontrolled pain prevents patients from taking pleasure in their usual role in the family and society.
Optimal therapy may require the use of a combination of medications that work in different ways to relieve pain. Patients with cancer and other forms of chronic disease may develop problems swallowing, or have nausea and vomiting or other gastrointestinal problems that make it difficult to take oral capsules or tablets. Our compounding professionals can help by formulating solutions or suspensions flavored to please the patient, or by compounding the needed medications into a topical or transdermal gel or cream that allows the medicine to be absorbed through the skin. Ask us for more information about the many ways that pain medications can be prepared to provide comfort for patients who are nearing the end of life.
Relief of Nausea & Vomiting
Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is commonly cited by patients as being among the "most unpleasant and distressing" side effects associated with chemotherapy. Persistent nausea can often be effectively controlled by using a combination of medications tailored to meet each individual's specific needs. A combination of lorazepam, diphenhydramine, and haloperidol (known in combination as "ABH" or "ABHR" when the medication metoclopramide was added) has been prepared as a transdermal gel and a rectal suppository, and found to be effective in the majority of hospice patients with minimal side effects. However, patients with bowel obstructions developed problems when treated with metoclopramide.
We work together with patients, families, and the entire health care team to customize medications and simplify administration. Your questions are welcome. |
As compounding pharmacists, we are
problem solvers. If you have friends with problems (hormones, chronic
pain, foot, nail, gynecologic, etc.) that are not being solved with
conventional therapy, forward this email to them for FREE confidential
consultations on their problems. If we can help, they will each
receive $15.00 off their first prescription and you will receive a
$15.00 credit on your next refill.
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Partners in Care, Inc.
Compounding Pharmacy
672 Lanier Park Dr.
Gainesville, GA 30501
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Bring us your medication problem, and if we can help, you will receive a
$15 CREDIT on your first new compounded prescription.
Print this email
and present at Partners in Care, and add the name of the friend who
referred you to receive this credit.
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Offer Expires: 06/30/09 Friend's Name _________________________________________________
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We offer private consultations in Pain Management and Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy. Please call to schedule an appointment.
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Order your prescription refills online 24 hours per day at http://picrx.com/refillrequest.htm! |
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