Case of home health care with prolonged administration of high-dose narcotic drugs

Abstract

In Japan, an increasing number of patients are spending their final days of cancer at home, and the continuous administration of medical narcotic injections using a patient-controlled analgesia(PCA) pump is attracting attention as a way to relieve pain. In collaboration with a physician and nurses, we report a case of high-dose medical narcotic administration using a PCA pump, and the patient was end-of-life at home after a long period of home treatment of about 6 months. The patient, a woman in her 60s, was being treated at home due to recurrent ovarian cancer with abdominal wall metastasis.