Is Dopamine the Golden Ticket for Symptom Management in Palliative Care? Role of Antipsychotics for Off-Label Uses (TH304)

Antipsychotics are widely used off-label in clinical practice, especially within palliative care. Palliative care and hospice clinicians often prescribe antipsychotics for off-label uses such as delirium, nausea, agitation, and insomnia even though controversial evidence exists for their use for these indications, given antipsychotics daunting side effect profile. A review of literature of antipsychotics for off-label uses will be completed and supplemented by expert opinion in a debate format as there are known risks and benefits to antipsychotic use, even when used more liberally in the palliative care world.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research