
The diagnosis and treatment of breakthrough pain
Title:
The diagnosis and treatment of breakthrough pain
Author:
Fine, P. G. (Perry G.)
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Physical Description:
v, 130 p. : ill. (some col.).
Series:
Oxford American pain library
Oxford American pain library.
Contents:
Incidence, prevalence, and characteristics -- Clinical features -- Assessment -- Principles of management -- Oral opioid analgesics -- Oral transmucosal opioid analgesics -- Opioid analgesics via other routes -- Nonopioid pharmacotherapy -- Nonpharmacologic interventions -- Risk assessment and management in long-term opioid therapy.