The Diagnosis and Treatment of Breakthrough Pain.

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Incidence, prevalence, and characteristics -- 2 Clinical features -- 3 Assessment -- 4 Principles of management -- 5 Oral opioid analgesics -- 6 Oral transmucosal opioid analgesics -- 7 Opioid analgesics via other routes -- 8 Nonopioid pharmacotherapy -- 9 Nonpharmacologic interventions -- 10 Risk assessment and management in long-term opioid therapy -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Part of the Oxford American Pain Library, this highly practical guide covers current approaches and new developments in the assessment and management of Breakthrough Pain, including both cancer-related pain and non-cancer chronic pain. It addresses the roles of opioid and non-opioid pharmacotherapy and presents non-pharmacologic interventions, as well. This concise yet comprehensive reference on Breakthrough Pain is ideal for palliative care doctors, anesthesiologists, pain medicine specialists and oncologists, as well as for primary care physicians and internists on the frontlines of care.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.