TY - JOUR T1 - Ranitidine: forgotten drug of delayed gastric emptying JF - BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care JO - BMJ Support Palliat Care SP - 255 LP - 257 DO - 10.1136/bmjspcare-2016-001188 VL - 7 IS - 3 AU - Abbie E Veevers AU - Stephen G Oxberry Y1 - 2017/09/01 UR - http://spcare.bmj.com/content/7/3/255.abstract N2 - Delayed gastric emptying in the presence or absence of mechanical bowel obstruction can cause distressing symptoms in palliative care patients. We present two patients, both with vomiting due to delayed gastric emptying and gastric outlet obstruction secondary to pancreatic cancer, treated with subcutaneous ranitidine resulting in a symptomatic response. We hypothesise that ranitidine is a useful adjunct to standard treatment with prokinetic agents or octreotide in such patients and potentially those with proximal mechanical bowel obstruction from other malignancies with associated delayed gastric emptying. ER -