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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fine, P. G. (Perry G.)
Otros Autores: Davies, Andrew, 1963-, Fishman, Scott, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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.