Pain syndromes in patients with HPB malignancies (CROSBI ID 507622)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Dobrila-Dintinjana, Renata
engleski
Pain syndromes in patients with HPB malignancies
There are curently over 14 milion people suffering from cancer, at least 4 milion have cancer pain. Pain affects every aspect of the sufferers life and the life of the family, caregivers and healthcare profesionals. Pain is multidimensional experience ; it has psychological, emotional and physiological components. Cancer pain may be due to direct tumor involvement, due to anticancer treatment, due to tHe other disease. Due to underlying neural mechanisms, Cacner pain may be nociceptive, neuropathic, sympathetically maintained. Cancer pain is best treated with a multidisciplinary approach. The main treatments for cancer pain are : oral analgesics, antidepressanst, anticonvulsants, neuroleptics, antihistamines, regional neurlolytic blocks, neurolitic spinal techiques, radiation therapy, radionuclides. The WHO three ladder step provide an important framework for use of analgesics in cancer patients. Surgical techiques are used to excise accessible tumors, reduce tumor mass, remove obstructions or mobilise tussue. Nerve blocks are used for more permanent pain control. One of the most frequently cited reason for the undertreatment of pain is the fear for causing opiod addiction. Addiction in patients who receive opioid drugs for cancer pain control does not excist. Special problems in releiving pain are pain in elderly, breakthrough pain and opiod-poorly responsive cancer pain.
pain; HPB malignancies
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Podaci o prilogu
59-x.
2001.
objavljeno
Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji
Abstract Book
Depolo, Arsen ; Rahelić, Velimir
Zagreb: Printing
Podaci o skupu
4th Alpe-Adria congress of hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery and medicine and 4th congress of Croatian association of digestive surgery
predavanje
27.09.2001-29.09.2001
Rijeka, Hrvatska; Opatija, Hrvatska