CICELY SAUNDERS, MARY BAINES, and ROBERT DUNLOP
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780192625144
- eISBN:
- 9780191730009
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192625144.003.0002
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making, Pain Management and Palliative Pharmacology
This chapter examines pain management problems in terminally ill patients. Terminal pain is frequently treated ineptly and the public myth that death from cancer involves unremitting distress is ...
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This chapter examines pain management problems in terminally ill patients. Terminal pain is frequently treated ineptly and the public myth that death from cancer involves unremitting distress is perpetuated. There are many reasons why terminal pain has been so poorly controlled. These include misconceptions concerning the use of analgesics, medical reluctance, and inadequate finance. The chapter discusses the nature of terminal pain, the prevalence of different types of pain, and the clinical assessment of pain.Less
This chapter examines pain management problems in terminally ill patients. Terminal pain is frequently treated ineptly and the public myth that death from cancer involves unremitting distress is perpetuated. There are many reasons why terminal pain has been so poorly controlled. These include misconceptions concerning the use of analgesics, medical reluctance, and inadequate finance. The chapter discusses the nature of terminal pain, the prevalence of different types of pain, and the clinical assessment of pain.
CICELY SAUNDERS, MARY BAINES, and ROBERT DUNLOP
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780192625144
- eISBN:
- 9780191730009
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192625144.003.0003
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making, Pain Management and Palliative Pharmacology
This chapter examines the use of analgesics for the control of terminal pain. Though there is no need to resort automatically to strong analgesics when a patient approaches the terminal stages of his ...
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This chapter examines the use of analgesics for the control of terminal pain. Though there is no need to resort automatically to strong analgesics when a patient approaches the terminal stages of his illness, pain must be relieved as soon as it becomes a matter of complaint. The criteria for giving analgesia, particularly opioids, should be the presence of pain and not the expected length of life. The chapter provides recommended treatment for different levels of terminal pain.Less
This chapter examines the use of analgesics for the control of terminal pain. Though there is no need to resort automatically to strong analgesics when a patient approaches the terminal stages of his illness, pain must be relieved as soon as it becomes a matter of complaint. The criteria for giving analgesia, particularly opioids, should be the presence of pain and not the expected length of life. The chapter provides recommended treatment for different levels of terminal pain.
