dyspnea/vomiting

To review the evidence for efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modalities in treating pain, dyspnea, and nausea and vomiting in patients near the end of life, original articles were evaluated following a search through MEDLINE, CancerLIT, AIDSLINE, PsycLIT, CINAHL, and Social

A 20-year old student had suffered since 3 years from diabetes mellitus type I, which was well-controlled by insulin-pump therapy. During a flight from Moscow to Los Angeles, the student all of a sudden had chest pain, dyspnea, and he vomitted repetitively--emergency landing at Zurich airport was

A 21-year-old female with chronic membranoproliferative nephritis was admitted for suspected esophageal disruption and asthma after severe, prolonged vomiting. At the time of admission she presented with dyspnea, tachypnea, arterial hypotension and tachycardia. Physical examination showed discrete

There are multiple potential states and/or symptoms that may occur in the palliative care population including: pain, nausea/vomiting, fatigue, anorexia, dyspnea, hiccups, cough, constipation, abdominal cramps/bloating, diarrhea, pruritis, depression/anxiety, dysphagia and sleep disturbances. Some

This study aimed to present the atypical clinical presentation and management of a metastatic lung cancer that had spread to an atypical location. Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. The brain, liver, adrenal glands and bone are the most common sites of

Health-related quality of life (HQL) was assessed before and after either moderately or highly emetogenic chemotherapy. When the pretreatment HQL in patients who did not vomit after chemotherapy (n = 203) was compared to those who vomited (n = 230), it was found that patients who did not vomit had

Nausea and vomiting during the infusion of cryopreserved peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) are common. The aim of this study was to explore the effect of lollipop with strawberry aroma on the infusion-related nausea and vomiting of cryopreserved autologous PBSCs. We compared 2 groups of adult