The diagnosis and treatment of breakthrough pain /
Breakthrough pain (BTP) is episodic pain that emerges through the treatment of otherwise well-managed chronic background pain. Often called pain flare or transient pain, BTP negatively affects the function and quality of life of the patient and often results in a number of other physical, psychologi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Oxford American pain library.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Incidence, prevalence, and characteristics
- Clinical features
- Assessment
- Principles of management
- Oral opioid analgesics
- Oral transmucosal opioid analgesics
- Opioid analgesics via other routes
- Nonopioid pharmacotherapy
- Nonpharmacologic interventions
- Risk assessment and management in long-term opioid therapy.