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Your mom had lung cancer that spread to the brain and went into hospice and died did they kill her with the morphine and drugs they gave her and what was the gurgling and hard breathing from?
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∙ 11y ago
The gurgling is from secretions and the hard breathing is typical end of life symptoms. Your mom did not die from the morphine and other drugs that were given to her by the hospice staff or primary care giver.
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Can you take morphine if you have asthma?
Just researching this very question tonight. I have a friend in the hospital, and tonight, they administered morphine to help her breathing. I had never heard this either. She does have cancer and is about to begin treatment.
What is the use of morphine for cancer?
Morphine is a pain-relief drug. It does not treat cancer, it merely eases the pain that cancer may cause.
Careers to help cancer victims?
You could go into cancer research, work in a hospice....
What is the name of the ward you go to when your going to die if you have cancer etc?
this is a hospice
Your friend who has terminal cancer an gone into a hospice will he die?
Eventually, yes, he will die. Hospice patients usually have 6 months, sometimes less, to live.
How is hospice able to determine when cancer patient is close to the end of life?
Hospice comes in when nothing else can be done for the patient and they can live at home until the end. Sorry.
Does morphine mean close to death for a hospice patient?
It doesn't in principle, there are, however, certain situations in which it may do so. Morphine causes respiratory depression, meaning that it suppresses the bodies drive to breathe. The body adapts quickly to this, and in most cases, in waking patients, this is not much of a problem. In very weak patients, such as end-stage cancer patients, that are unconscious either due to disease processes or due to sedation, the respiratory depression that morphine causes may speed up dying, however.
Does morhine use shorten a persons life?
Yes. Morphine in high doses or in continued use can cause necrosis of the brain. It basically kills off certain areas of the brain until one of these areas controls an important of the body like breathing. Doctors can prescribe morphine to terminal cancer patients to ease their pain near death.
Are there any resources online where I can get some information about hospice care?
Yes, HospiceNet.org is a great resource for information on hospice care. They should have anything you need. The American Cancer Society is a great resource for any information you need on hospice care. Check their website for more information.
What is the side affect of morphine giving patient with advance cancer?
supression of respiration..
How did Freud die?
Sigmund Freud died of cancer on September 23, 1939, in London, England, where he had sought refuge after fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria. Freud had been battling oral cancer for over 16 years before his death.
I have a close friend whose father has had cancer for at least a year and hospice was recently called What are the chances of the cancer going away and him surviving?
Pancreatic cancer and mesothelioma are the worst at 7% and 8% after five years in the US.
