Pain Medicine and Palliative Care
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This large scale computer-assisted telephone survey was undertaken to explore the prevalence, severity, treatment and impact of chronic pain in 15 European countries and Israel. Screening interviews identified respondents aged 18 years with chronic…
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Patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer have a substantial symptom burden and may receive aggressive care at the end of life. We examined the effect of introducing palliative care early after diagnosis on patient-reported outcomes and…
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In this review, we integrate recent human and animal studies from the viewpoint of chronic pain. First, we briefly review the impact of chronic pain on society and address current pitfalls of its definition and clinical management. Second, we…
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Palliative medicine is the care and the study of that care for patients, with an active, progressive, and advanced disease, where life expectancy is relatively short. The goal is achievement of the best possible quality of life for patients and…
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As we approach the new millennium, it is clear that we are on the brink of a major change in clinical pain management. We are poised to move from a treatment paradigm that has been almost entirely empirical to one that will be derived from an…
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This document is the outcome of a multi-disciplinary review of the scientific evidence for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of acute musculoskeletal pain. The evidence is summarised in the form of a management plan and key messages that may be…
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BACKGROUND: Palliative sedation therapy (PST) is indicated for and used to control refractory symptoms in cancer patients undergoing palliative care. We aimed to evaluate whether PST has a detrimental effect on survival in terminally ill patients.…
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Kindness, humanity, and respectthe core values of medical professionalismare too often being overlooked in the time pressured culture of modern health care, says Harvey Chochinov, and the A, B, C, and D of dignity conserving care can reinstate them
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The sensation of pain alerts us to real or impending injury and triggers appropriate protective responses. Unfortunately, pain often outlives its usefulness as a warning system and instead becomes chronic and debilitating. This transition to a…
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Respiratory depression limits the use of opioid analgesia. Although well described clinically, the specific mechanisms of opioid action on respiratory control centres in the brain have, until recently, been less well understood. This article reviews…
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This paper presents an approach to rehabilitation of pain patients. The fundamental principles of the approach are (i) pain is an output of the brain that is produced whenever the brain concludes that body tissue is in danger and action is required,…
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Consideration is given to the problem of treating pain in the tumour patient with an examination of the methodological basis of the therapeutic approach in the light of the antalgic, pharmacological and instrumental means at present available.…
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Palliative care represents a part of a whole philosophy and approach to patient care-it should not be an isolated service at the end of life. Whole person care does not have to be limited to those imminently dying. The Palliative Care Center and…
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During the years of communist rule in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), there were few significant palliative care developments. Since the political changes of the 1990s, however,…
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BACKGROUND: Unhelpful pain cognitions of patients with chronic low back pain (LBP) may limit physical performance and undermine physical assessment. It is not known whether a direct relationship exists between pain cognitions and physical…
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The highly disagreeable sensation of pain results from an extraordinarily complex and interactive series of mechanisms integrated at all levels of the neuroaxis, from the periphery, via the dorsal horn to higher cerebral structures. Pain is usually…
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Researcher (at an Academic Institution)Berlin, Germany