Topics Covered
- Medical decision making
- Cancer patients' symptom burden
- Why treat pain?
- Cancer pain: a significant problem
- Pain affects patients throughout the disease course
- Causes of pain in cancer patients
- Pain definitions and pathophysiology
- Consequences of inadequately managed pain
- Relating pain with function
- Pain and symptom assessment
- ABCs of pain and symptom assessment and management
- Therapeutic approaches
- Pharmacotherapy
- Commonly prescribed opioids
- Principles of opioid therapy for effective pain management
- NCCN guidelines for adult cancer pain
- Extended- and regular-released opioids
- Methadone
- Opioid adverse effects
- Opioid rotation
- Managing the poorly responsive patient
- Adjuvant analgesics/co-analgesics
- Procedural interventions
- Nonpharmacologic treatment
- Collateral opioid issues
- Cancer fatigue
- Treatment of fatigue
- Cancer anorexia-cachexia
- Progestational agents
- Psychotropic agents
- Anabolic agents
- Chronic nausea/vomiting
- Nausea management
- Anti-emetic agents
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Talk Citation
Driver, L. (2009, March 22). Pain and symptom control in palliative care: new ways to think about old drugs [Video file]. In
The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved September 22, 2023, from
https://hstalks.com/bs/1179/.
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Publication History
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Published on March 22, 2009
Financial Disclosures
- Prof. Larry Driver has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.