PAIN managementWe read with interest the work by Vittinghoff and colleagues(1) on the creation of guidelines for postoperative pain management in children which aims to "guide best practice" through expert consensus. The creation of a framework for improvement is laudable and may prove useful to...
Pain is one of the most common symptoms encountered in palliative medicine. Good pain management involves ensuring pain is screened for, adequately assessed if present and appropriately managed. This includes targeted and systemic, nonpharmacological, an
Pharmacological treatment is the mainstay for the management of pain. A wide range of analgesics have been used in the treatment of MSK pain (Table1). In 1986, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the pain ladder system. Since then, the ladder has guided clinicians all over the wo...
RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook analgesic (redirected fromPain killers) Dictionary Thesaurus Medical Related to Pain killers:Dilaudid,Tramadol,Muscle relaxers analgesic 1.of or causing analgesia ...
Adjuvant analgesics are defined as medications with other primary indications that possess analgesic properties under certain circumstances. They are integral components in all three steps of the WHO analgesic ladder for treatment of cancer pain, and utilization of adjuvant agents in cancer patients has ...
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WHO Analgesic Ladder: Is It Appropriate for Joint Pain? From NSAIDS to Opioids 1. McAlindon TE, Bannuru RR, Sullivan MC, Arden NK, Berenbaum F, Bierma-Zeinstra SM et al. OARSI guidelines for the non-surgical management of knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and cartilage 2014; 22: 363-...
Adequate cancer pain management (CPM) is challenging in resource-limited settings, where current international guideline recommendations are difficult to i
The WHO Analgesic Ladder for Cancer Pain Management Stepping up the quality of its evaluation. JAMA. 1995; 274 (23):1870. doi: 10.1001/jama.1995.03530230056031. [ Cross Ref ]Jadad AR, Browman GP. The WHO analgesic ladder for cancer pain management. stepping up the quality of its... Jadad...
World Health Organisa- tion's (WHO) guidelines for the management of pain in cancer, treatment is considered adequate when there is congruence between the reported level of pain of the patient and the potency of the prescribed analgesic drug (its place on the WHO analgesic ladder; WHO, 1996...