Rosh Review Oncology

Question 1

For palliative air hunger - should nebulized morphine or sublingual morphine be used?

Answer 1

Sublingual morphine

Question 2

What breathing pattern is commonly seen in the last hours to days of a patient’s life?

Answer 2

Cheyne-Stokes respirations, which is a cyclic crescendo-decrescendo breathing pattern marked by apneic episodes.