Abstract:Decision-making for antibiotic therapy in palliative cancer care implies avoiding futile interventions and to identify patients who benefit from treatment. We evaluated patient-reported outcome-measures (PROMs), physiological findings, and survival in palliative cancer care patients hospitalized with an infection. All acute admissions during one year, directly to a University Hospital unit that provided integrated services, were included. Serious infection was defined as a need to start intravenous antibiotics… Show more
“…PN may result in a variety of treatment-related complications, like hyperglycemia, refeeding syndrome, thrombosis, and serious infections [32]. We previously demonstrated that approximately one-quarter of the patients acutely admitted to the APCU received intravenous antibiotics [33]. Taking the inherent limitations of a short observation period and a restricted number of patients into account, we were not able to detect any difference in infection prevalence for hospitalized patients treated with PN compared to patients not receiving this intervention.…”
Palliative cancer care patients may live for a long time, but malnutrition worsens the prognosis. Parenteral nutrition (PN) is suitable for replenishing a calorie deficit, but its advantages and tolerance late in the cancer trajectory are debated. We examined symptom development in hospitalized patients with and without PN. A total of 21 palliative cancer care patients receiving PN and 155 palliative cancer care patients not receiving PN during hospitalization in a specialized unit were retrospectively compared. We studied symptom intensity at admission, symptom relief during the hospital stay, and survival. The patients had locally advanced or metastatic cancer, a mean age of 70 years, and their median ECOG performance status was III. Symptom burden at admission was similar in the compared groups. Symptom relief during hospitalization was also similar. However, patients already on PN at admission reported more nausea and patients receiving PN during hospitalization reported better nausea relief compared to patients not receiving this intervention. Overall median survival was less than two months and similar in the compared groups. Based on a limited number of observations and a suboptimal study design, we were not able to demonstrate an increased symptom burden for palliative cancer care patients receiving PN late in the disease trajectory.
“…PN may result in a variety of treatment-related complications, like hyperglycemia, refeeding syndrome, thrombosis, and serious infections [32]. We previously demonstrated that approximately one-quarter of the patients acutely admitted to the APCU received intravenous antibiotics [33]. Taking the inherent limitations of a short observation period and a restricted number of patients into account, we were not able to detect any difference in infection prevalence for hospitalized patients treated with PN compared to patients not receiving this intervention.…”
Palliative cancer care patients may live for a long time, but malnutrition worsens the prognosis. Parenteral nutrition (PN) is suitable for replenishing a calorie deficit, but its advantages and tolerance late in the cancer trajectory are debated. We examined symptom development in hospitalized patients with and without PN. A total of 21 palliative cancer care patients receiving PN and 155 palliative cancer care patients not receiving PN during hospitalization in a specialized unit were retrospectively compared. We studied symptom intensity at admission, symptom relief during the hospital stay, and survival. The patients had locally advanced or metastatic cancer, a mean age of 70 years, and their median ECOG performance status was III. Symptom burden at admission was similar in the compared groups. Symptom relief during hospitalization was also similar. However, patients already on PN at admission reported more nausea and patients receiving PN during hospitalization reported better nausea relief compared to patients not receiving this intervention. Overall median survival was less than two months and similar in the compared groups. Based on a limited number of observations and a suboptimal study design, we were not able to demonstrate an increased symptom burden for palliative cancer care patients receiving PN late in the disease trajectory.
Palyatif servis hastalarında güncel enfeksiyon etkeni profilinin ve antibiyotik direnç paternlerinin bilinmesi kültür ve antibiyogram sonuçlarının belirlenmesine kadar başlanacak ampirik tedavi yönetimi açısından büyük öneme sahiptir. Çalışmamızda hastanemiz palyatif servisinde yatarak tedavi gören hastaların klinik örneklerinden izole edilen mikroorganizma dağılımının ve bu izolatların antibiyotik direnç profillerinin araştırılması amaçlanmıştır.
Bu çalışmada 2022-2023 yılları arasında Samsun Gazi Devlet Hastanesi palyatif servisinde yatan 264 hastanın mikrobiyoloji laboratuvarına gönderilen klinik örnekleri değerlendirildi.
Hastaların medyan yaşı 76 (aralık: 65-87) idi ve hastaların %41’i erkekti. En sık idrar yolu enfeksiyonu etkenleri Klebsiella spp. (%27.4) ve Escherichia coli (%27.4), en sık solunum yolu enfeksiyonu etkeni Acinetobacter baumannii (%36.7), en sık yara yeri enfeksiyonu etkeni Pseudomonas aeruginosa (%30) idi. En düşük direnç oranları Klebsiella izolatlarında seftazidim-avibaktam (%4.8) ve kolistine (%9.5); E. coli izolatlarında seftazidim-avibaktam (%0), kolistin (%0), imipenem (%7.1) ve meropeneme (%7.1); Acinetobacter izolatlarında kolistine (%0); Pseudomonas izolatlarımda kolistin (%0) ve seftazidim-avibaktama (%23.1); enterokok izolatlarında ise vankomisine (%0) karşı idi.
Çalışmamızdan elde edilen bulgular palyatif servis hastalarında idrar ve kan dolaşımı enfeksiyonu olgularına en sık Klebsiella ve E. coli’nin yol açtığını ve bu enfeksiyonlarda özellikle seftazidim-avibaktam ve kolistinin en etkili tedavi seçenekleri olduğunu, Acinetobacter ve Pseudomonas’ın etken olduğu olgularda da kolistinin en etkili antibiyotik olduğunu göstermiştir.
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