• Scope of the Problem
• 34 min
  1. Cancer pain

  • Prof. Judith Paice
• Current Therapies
• 58 min
  2. The rational use of opioid analgesics for cancer pain - with a critique of the WHO 3-step ladder

  • Prof. Sam Ahmedzai
• 17 min
  3. Spinal analgesia for cancer pain

  • Prof. Jon Raphael
• 41 min
  4. Celiac plexus block

  • Prof. David Brown
• Future Directions
• 45 min
  5. Pain and symptom control in palliative care: new ways to think about old drugs

  • Prof. Larry Driver
• 36 min
  6. Symptom control: using technology pragmatically

  • Dr. Steven Richeimer
• From Palliative Care to Chronic Pain
• 42 min
  7. Insight and responsibility: ethics in pain medicine and palliative care

  • Prof. Rollin Gallagher
• 23 min
  8. The patient with pain: a palliative care approach

  • Dr. Janet Abrahm
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 34 min
  9. Cancer pain and related symptoms: an overview

  • Prof. Judith Paice
• 74 min
  10. Cancer pain control: an evidence-based approach

  • Prof. Daniel Carr
  • Dr. Baraa Tayeb
• 47 min
  11. Optimal treatment of chronic pain

  • Prof. Gordon Irving
• 33 min
  12. Chronic cancer pain: the price of success?

  • Prof. Allen Burton

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Navigable Slide Index

1. Introduction
2. Objectives
3. Example (1)
4. Is he really having pain?
5. Acute pain
6. Chronic pain
7. The brief pain inventory
8. Refractory pain: could it be something else?
9. Example (2)
10. Psychological distress
11. Delirium assessment / diagnosis
12. Neurotoxicity or delirium?
13. Opioid neurotoxicity or delirium
14. Example (3)
15. Existential concerns
16. Spiritual distress
17. Example (4)
18. Chemical coping
19. Clinician barriers
20. Patients minimize pain
21. Family and patient barriers (1)
22. Family and patient barriers (2)
23. Quality care at end of life: patient's perspective
24. Which agents are best?
25. Fentanyl patch
26. Methadone half-life
27. Palliative sedation for refractory distress
28. Support for palliative sedation
29. Legal support
30. Physician responsibility
31. Nursing responsibility
32. Pharmacist responsibility
33. Palliative sedation
34. Thank you
35. Resources

Topics Covered

• Pain manifestations and functional pain assessments
• Sources of distress other than pain that patients call "pain"
• Clinician, patient, and family barriers to controlling pain
• Pain at the end of life
• The role of palliative sedation to unconsciousness for refractory distress

Links

Series:

• Cancer Pain Management

Categories:

• Cancer
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology
• Oncology

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on February 23, 2009

Financial Disclosures

• Dr. Janet Abrahm has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.