Recognizing Radiation Therapy as Both Cause and Treatment for Cancer Pain
A review of the relationship between cancer, pain, pain management, and radiotherapy.
A review of the relationship between cancer, pain, pain management, and radiotherapy.
Benefits and risk of all treatment options should be considered in the context of patient circumstances
Opioids no more effective than NSAIDs or local, systemic anesthetics for musculoskeletal pain, may carry higher risks for harms
Declines in opioid prescribing outpacing increases in receipt of nonopioid therapies
Acupuncture can be considered an optional adjunctive pain treatment for acute renal colic, according to investigators.
Pain requiring opioids is more common among patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma compared with a matched control group of patients without cancer, a study found.
Physicians less likely to prescribe an analgesic during night shifts versus daytime shifts
More drugs with high abuse potential made it through the development process than new drugs with low abuse potential
A 60-year-old man with a history of diabetes mellitus type 2 presented to the emergency department with 3 weeks of worsening lower abdominal and pelvic pain. On arrival, he was febrile (38.9˚C) with a white blood cell count of 20,000. He had tachycardia and was hypotensive. He was stabilized with fluid resuscitation. A computed tomography…
A systematic review and meta-analysis show direct interventions have a greater impact on opioid prescribing than indirect interventions