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- Introduction
- Factors involved in the medical decision making
- Cancer patients' symptom burden
- Cancer pain management
- Why treat pain?
- Cancer pain - a significant problem
- Pain in cancer patients
- Causes of pain in cancer patients
- Definitions and pathophysiology
- Consequences of inadequately managed pain
- Relating pain with function
- Pain is a multidimensional experience
- Pain perception differs among patients
- Pain and symptom assessment
- ABCs of pain and symptom management
- Therapeutic approaches
- Pharmacotherapy
- Principles of opioid therapy
- Commonly prescribed opioids
- Extended-release opioids - dosages
- Regular-release opioids - dosages
- Rapid-onset Fentanyl for breakthrough pain/rescue
- Methadone
- Methadone - conversions
- Opioid adverse effects
- Opioid rotation
- Managing the poorly responsive patient
- Adjuvant analgesics/co analgesics
- Procedural interventions
- Nonpharmacologic treatment
- Collateral opioid issues
- Cancer fatigue
- Fatigue pathophysiology
- Symptomatic treatment of fatigue
- Problem-specific management of fatigue
- Corticosteroids and psychostimulants
- Cancer anorexia-cachexia (1)
- Cahokiain in end stage diseases
- Starvation vs. cachexia
- Management of anorexia-cachexia
- Chronic nausea and vomiting
- Opioid induced nausea
- Nausea management
- Problem-specific treatment
- Anti-emetic agents
- Acknowledgements
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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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 October 11, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/HWHA1436.Export Citation (RIS)
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Financial Disclosures
- Prof. Larry Driver has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.
Pain and symptom control in palliative care: new ways to think about old drugs
Published on March 22, 2009
45 min
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