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Pain Management

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NEWS:

NEW GUIDANCE ISSUED FOR OPIOID PAIN MEDICATION

Opioid Analgesic Guidelines Strike Delicate Balance

Painkillers may damage small intestines

ARTICLES:

Assessment and management of acute pain

Chronic Pain Management Paradigm: Time for a Change?

Chronic Pain Medicines

Chronic pain: Exercise can bring relief

Nonopioid Pharmacologic Management of Pain

Opiate-Related Therapies and Management of Pain

Opioids and Noncancer Pain: An Expert Interview With Gerald Aronoff, MD

Questions and Answers About Using Magnets To Treat Pain

Questions and Answers on Using Over-the-Counter (OTC) Analgesics/Antipyretics

Physician's Perspective: The Side Effects of Pain Medications

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Acceptable, manageable, and tolerable days: patient daily goals for medication management of persistent pain. (J Pain Symptom Manage)

Acupuncture and endorphins. (Neurosci Lett)

Acute pain in advanced cancer: an opioid dosing strategy and illustration. (Am J Hosp Palliat Care)

Addition of a second opioid may improve opioid response in cancer pain: preliminary data. (Support Care Cancer)

Advances in opioid therapy and formulations. (Support Care Cancer)

Advances in postoperative pain management: the pharmacy perspective. (Am J Health Syst Pharm)

Analgesics for orthopedic postoperative pain. (Am J Orthop)

[Antidepressants and anticonvulsive agents. Practical utility profile in pain therapy] (Schmerz)

[Bisphosphonates in malignant hypercalcemia and bone pain] (Rev Med Suisse Romande)

Clinical experience with transdermal fentanyl for the treatment of cancer pain in Germany. (Keio J Med)

Contemporary trends in acute pain management. (Curr Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg)

Effectiveness and safety of oral extended-release oxymorphone for the treatment of cancer pain: a pilot study. (Support Care Cancer)

Evaluation and treatment of central pain syndromes. (Neurology)

Evidence report on the treatment of pain in cancer patients. (J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr)

Evidence-based pain management and palliative care in The Cochrane Library. (J Pain)

Hydrotherapy, balneotherapy, and spa treatment in pain management. (Rheumatol Int)

Improving cancer pain management by homecare nurses. (Oncol Nurs Forum)

Intrathecal opioid treatment for chronic non-malignant pain: a 3-year prospective study. (Pain)

Meperidine is alive and well in the new millennium: evaluation of meperidine usage patterns and frequency of adverse drug reactions. (Pharmacotherapy)

[Minimal invasive treatment modalities for geriatric pain management] (Agri)

Morphine is not the only analgesic in palliative care: literature review. (J Adv Nurs)

Multimodal acute pain management. (Am J Orthop)

Multimodal postoperative pain management. (Am J Health Syst Pharm)

[New pharmaceutical and invasive approaches in cancer pain therapy] (Wien Med Wochenschr)

Nonpharmacologic management of pain. (J Am Osteopath Assoc)

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, alone or combined with opioids, for cancer pain: a systematic review. (J Clin Oncol)

Nonsurgical approaches to pain management for osteoarthritis of the knee. (Am J Orthop)

Opioid dose titration for severe cancer pain: a systematic evidence-based review. (J Palliat Med)

Opioid effectiveness, addiction, and depression in chronic pain. (Adv Psychosom Med)

Opioid switching from transdermal fentanyl to oral methadone in patients with cancer pain. (Cancer)

Opioid switching to improve pain relief and drug tolerability. (Cochrane Database Syst Rev)

Opioid use and health care charges at the end of life in patients with metastatic cancer. (Manag Care Interface)

OPIOIDS. (Headache)

Opioids in chronic non-cancer pain: systematic review of efficacy and safety. (Pain)

Oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate in the management of breakthrough pain in cancer: an open, multicentre, dose-titration and long-term use study. (Palliat Med)

Pain and Satisfaction With Pain Control in Hospitalized Medical Patients (Arch Intern Med)

Pain management by the family physician: the family practice pain education project. (J Am Board Fam Pract)

[Pain management in shoulder surgery] (Schmerz)

Pain management, including intrathecal pumps. (Curr Oncol Rep)

Patient preferences for acute pain treatment. (Br J Anaesth)

Pharmacologic approaches to geriatric pain management. (Arch Phys Med Rehabil)

Pharmacological consequences of long-term morphine treatment in patients with cancer and chronic non-malignant pain. (Eur J Pain)

Pharmacological management of metastatic boney pain. (Expert Opin Pharmacother)

Practical treatment of pain in patients with chronic wounds: pathogenesis-guided management. (Am J Surg)

Psychological therapies for the management of chronic and recurrent pain in children and adolescents (Cochrane Review) (The Cochrane Library)

Selective cyclooxygenase inhibition in pain management. (J Am Osteopath Assoc)

Spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain (Cochrane Review) (The Cochrane Library)

Systematic review of the analgesic efficacy and tolerability of COX-2 inhibitors in post-operative pain control. (J Clin Pharm Ther)

Systematic review of the relative efficacy of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids in the treatment of acute renal colic. (BMJ)

The management of pain in long-term care. (Clin J Pain)

The role of acupuncture in pain management. (Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am)

The treatment of cancer pain. (Drugs Today (Barc))

The Use of As-Needed Range Orders in the Management of Acute Pain: A Consensus Statement of the American Society of Pain Management Nursing and the American Pain Society (Pain Manag Nurs)

Therapeutic outcome in neuropathic pain: relationship to evidence of nervous system lesion (European Journal of Neurology)

Treating adult cancer pain in primary care. (J Am Board Fam Pract)

[Treatment of pain in cancer patients] (MMW Fortschr Med)

Use of strong opioids in advanced cancer pain: a randomized trial. (J Pain Symptom Manage)

[Use of the World Health Organization guidelines on cancer pain relief before referral to a specialized pain service] (Schmerz)

Use of transdermal fentanyl without prior opioid stabilization in patients with cancer pain. (Curr Med Res Opin)

Weak opiate analgesics: modest practical merits. (Prescrire Int)

[What's new in the treatment of cancer pain?] (Bull Cancer)

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