TY - JOUR
T1 - Response to “Hyoscine Butylbromide for the Management of Death Rattle
T2 - Sooner Rather Than Later”
AU - Boland, Jason W.
AU - Currow, David
AU - Johnson, Miriam
PY - 2019/3/3
Y1 - 2019/3/3
N2 - We read with interest the article “Hyoscine Butylbromide for the Management of Death Rattle: Sooner Rather Than Later” by Mercadante et al., comparing pre-emptive hyoscine butylbromide for the management of noisy upper respiratory tract secretions (RTS) in patients in the last days of life with treatment of RTS when they occurred. Previous studies have administered anticholinergic drugs to treat already formed noisy RTS rather than preventing their formation, but anticholinergic drugs are unable to remove secretions already formed
AB - We read with interest the article “Hyoscine Butylbromide for the Management of Death Rattle: Sooner Rather Than Later” by Mercadante et al., comparing pre-emptive hyoscine butylbromide for the management of noisy upper respiratory tract secretions (RTS) in patients in the last days of life with treatment of RTS when they occurred. Previous studies have administered anticholinergic drugs to treat already formed noisy RTS rather than preventing their formation, but anticholinergic drugs are unable to remove secretions already formed
KW - RTS
KW - anticholinergics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061750460&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.11.018
DO - 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.11.018
M3 - Letter
C2 - 30496789
AN - SCOPUS:85061750460
SN - 0885-3924
VL - 57
SP - e12-e13
JO - Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
JF - Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
IS - 3
ER -