Pain, Intractable - Nursing
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Clinical approaches to special issues related to opioid therapy.

29 Apr 2009 OBJECTIVES: To summarize the unique characteristics of methadone and the putative mechanisms of rapid-onset opioid formulations for breakthrough pain; to outline the principles underlying opioid rotation; and to describe elements of risk assessment ... Read more...

Walk a mile in my shoes: an auto-ethnographic study.

30 Jul 2008 The aim of the study reported in this paper was to uncover and understand the reality of living with chronic, intractable non malignant back pain, as it is understood by sufferers themselves. A narrative auto-ethnographic research design was chosen, ... Read more...

Meditation as an intervention for chronic pain: an integrative review.

29 Jun 2008 Chronic pain is a complex phenomenon that causes a significant disruption in the lives of those affected. Chronic pain is difficult to treat and challenges healthcare professionals' abilities to implement effective treatments. Therefore, chronic ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pain, Intractable - Nursing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Clinical approaches to special issues related to opioid therapy. 29 Apr 2009
• Walk a mile in my shoes: an auto-ethnographic study. 30 Jul 2008
• Meditation as an intervention for chronic pain: an integrative review. 29 Jun 2008
• Benefits of nurse prescribing for patients in pain: nurses' views. 29 Jun 2008
• [Cancer pain from the nurses' perspective--findings from Austria] 30 Oct 2007
• Knowledge and attitudes about cancer pain management: a national survey of Italian hospice nurses. 27 Feb 2007
• Oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate for cancer breakthrough pain: a review. Nov 2006
• Effectively starting and titrating intrathecal analgesic therapy in patients with refractory cancer pain. 29 Sep 2005
• Radiopharmaceuticals for the palliation of painful bone metastases. 30 Dec 2004
• Are nurses prepared to manage cancer pain? A national survey of nurses' knowledge about pain control in Taiwan. 30 Oct 2003
• When the world health organization analgesic therapies ladder fails: the role of invasive analgesic therapies. 30 Aug 2003
• Older people in persistent pain: nursing and paramedical staff perceptions and pain management. 27 Feb 2003
• Pain management problems in patients' terminal phase as assessed by nurses in Finland. 29 Nov 2002
• Administering meperidine to patients with cancer. 30 Aug 2002
• Difficulties in managing pain at the end of life. 29 Jun 2002
• Testing an instrument measuring Greek nurses' knowledge and attitudes regarding pain. 30 Jan 2002
• Pain and leukemia: the stories of three children. 30 Dec 2001
• A pilot study into the problematic use of opioid analgesics in chronic non-cancer pain patients. 30 Dec 2001
• Clinical experience. 30 Aug 2001
• Percutaneous chordotomy for managing cancer pain. 30 Aug 2001

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Technical information about 'Pain, Intractable'

Definition: Persistent pain that is refractory to some or all forms of treatment.

Descriptor UI: D010148

Alternative terms: Pain, Intractable; Intractable Pain; Intractable Pains; Pains, Intractable; Refractory Pain; Pain, Refractory; Pains, Refractory; Refractory Pains;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.617.788; C23.888.592.612.776; C23.888.646.515;

History Note: 1974

Technical Notes: IM; usually chronic so do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE but chronic pain = PAIN (IM) + CHRONIC DISEASE (NIM)