The diagnosis and treatment of breakthrough pain

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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Fine, P. G. (Perry G.)
Other Authors: Davies, Andrew, 1963-, Fishman, Scott, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
Series:Oxford American pain library.
Subjects:
Pain > Diagnosis > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Pain > Treatment > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Pain.
Analgesics, Opioid > Handbooks > therapeutic use.
Pain > Handbooks > diagnosis.
Pain > Handbooks > therapy.
Pain
Analgesics, Opioid
Handbook
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items