Book chapter
Pharmacopalliation of Pain
Surgical Palliative Care
Integrating Palliative Care, Oxford University Press
10/01/2019
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780190858360.003.0021
Abstract
Pain is one of the most common symptoms that a surgeon may encounter in their patients with palliative care needs. Pain no longer serves an adaptive, protective mechanism but one that is maladaptive and has no redeeming purpose except to add to the patient’s suffering. Effective management requires the surgeon to consider the biopsychosocialspiritual impact of the underlying disease when assessing the patient’s selfreport of pain. This chapter is a primer and provides an overview of the most common factors that a surgeon may want to consider in providing primary pharmacopalliation of pain, including analgesic selection and adverse effect management.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Pharmacopalliation of Pain
- Creators
- James B. Ray
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Surgical Palliative Care
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Series
- Integrating Palliative Care
- DOI
- 10.1093/med/9780190858360.003.0021
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Pharmacy Practice and Science; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984363315602771
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