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Biomedicine (Taipei)
2017[Jun]; 7
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In the hospice ward where patients are in the terminal stages of cancer, it is
common practice to give them a subcutaneous injection of pain relievers to reduce
their pain and make them more comfortable. Most of these patients are elderly and
have low blood pressure or poor veins, which often makes it difficult to inject
them because of the calcification at previous injection sites. Thus, subcutaneous
injections are a convenient way to maintain analgesia and patient comfort. Our
patient, a 73-year-old aboriginal woman, was diagnosed with gastric
adenocarcinoma and peritoneal carcinomatosis in March, 2004. While she was in the
inpatient hospice ward, a subcutaneous injection site became infected and
localized cellulitis developed. The patient's quality of life began to decline
and her hospice stay was lengthened due to these complications. This case is
offered as a reference case of subcutaneous injection complications encountered
by elderly patients in hospice care.
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