(2008), Opioids and the Management of Chronic Severe Pain in the Elderly: Consensus Statement of an International Expert Panel with Focus on the Six Clinically Most Often Used World Health Organization step III Opioids (Buprenorphine, Fentanyl, Hydromorphone, Methadone, Morphine, Oxycodone). Pain ...
Survey questions addressed the impact of various factors (e.g., quality of life indicators, potential for opioid addiction, side-effects) on pain management decision making, patient satisfaction and compliance. Responses for the first 500 patients and 275 physicians to respond were assessed using ...
Opioid analgesics such as morphine are effective for the management of pain, and their efficacy can increase with dose. However, because adverse events such as respiratory depression and gastrointestinal events can preclude the use of higher doses, many patients are left with inadequate pain relief ...
Incidence of constipation associated with long-acting opioid therapy: a comparative study. BACKGROUND: Opioid therapy plays a key role in the management of chronic pain. Constipation is one of the more frequently occurring adverse effects associa... PS Staats,M Jeffrey,S Jeffrey - 《Southern Medic...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a combination pill containingcelecoxibandtramadol(Seglentis) for the treatment of adults with acute pain severe enough to require an opioid analgesic and for which alternative treatments fail to provide adequate pain relief. ...
pain patients’ access to opioid analgesia [8,9]. As the role of opioid analgesics in the treatment of severe chronic noncancer pain remains controversial, chronic pain patients may become resigned to their suffering out of their inability to deal with an unhelpful healthcare system. For its ...
"There is insufficient evidence for and serious risks associated with long-term use of opioid therapy to treat chronic pain," the researchers said, and opioid addiction remains at epidemic levels across the United States. There are other remedies available, Barbour's team stressed. "Low-impact ph...
Pain management in patients with cancer remains suboptimal. Breakthrough pain (BTP) is characterized by abrupt onset of severe pain in a background of othe... SM Simon,LS Schwartzberg - 《J Opioid Manag》 被引量: 30发表: 2014年 Herlyn Werner Wunderlich Syndrome - An Unusal Presentation Case...
future studies. In addition, implementation of management strategies towards potential risk factors such as poor diet, low levels of physical activity, smoking, and high BMI as well as sleep deprivation and morphine use previously shown associated with having pain may reduce the excess mortality ...
Opioids and the Management of Chronic Severe Pain in the Elderly: Consensus Statement of an International Expert Panel with Focus on the Six Clinically Mos... ▪ Summary of consensus:1. The use of opioids in cancer pain: The criteria for selecting analgesics for pain treatment in the...