Cancer-Related Breakthrough Pain

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Clinical features


• 3: Assessment


• 4: General principles of management


• 5: Oral and parenteral opioids


• 6: Oral transmucosal opioids


• 7: Intranasal and intrapulmonary opioids


• 8: Non-opioid analgesics


• 9: Other therapeutic interventions

About the author

Dr Andrew Davies is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine from the United Kingdom. He has a long-standing clinical / research interest in breakthrough cancer pain (BTcP). He was the chair of the working group that produced the APM recommendations on BTcP, contributed to the EONS guidelines on BTcP, and has written numerous peer reviewed journal articles on the subject. He is current President of the APM, and is President-Elect of the MASCC.

Summary

This new edition is an invaluable resource for specialists and trainees in pain management, containing up-to-date content on the assessment and managment of cancer-related breakthrough pain.

Additional text

thoroughly updated to account for recent developments within the field. These updates ensure that Cancer-Related Breakthrough Pain (Oxford Pain Management Library) continues to be an invaluable resource for specialists and trainees in palliative care and pain management, as well as being a quick reference guide for GPs, specialist nurses, and other healthcare professionals.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Davies, Andrew (Consultant Palliative Medicine Davies, Davies Andrew
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2019
• EAN: 9780198840480
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884048-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Oxford Pain Management Library
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Pain & pain management, Oncology, Pain and pain management, MEDICAL / Oncology / General