Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Palliative Medicine
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Burne, R.
Right arrow Articles by Hunt, A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Burne, R.
Right arrow Articles by Hunt, A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Use of opiates in terminally ill children

R. Burne

Helen House, Oxford

A. Hunt

Helen House, Oxford

The records of 21 children receiving morphine ordiamorphine during terminal care at a children's hospice were reviewed to examine the use of these drugs. Twelve children with neoplastic disease required one of these drugs during the last week of life. The main indication in every case was pain. Among children with other diagnoses morphine or diamorphine was used in nine cases for a variety of indications. The experience described here suggests that strong opiates may be used in the terminal care of children following the principles developed in adult hospices.

Key Words: morphine • diamorphine • pain • terminal care.

Palliative Medicine, Vol. 1, No. 1, 27-30 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/026921638700100103
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Palliat MedHome page
A. H. Helen and R. Burne
Medical and nursing problems of children with neurodegenerative disease
Palliative Medicine, January 1, 1995; 9(1): 19 - 26.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Palliat MedHome page
A. Goldman and A. Bowman
The role of oral controlled-release morphine for pain relief in children with cancer
Palliative Medicine, October 1, 1990; 4(4): 279 - 285.
[Abstract] [PDF]