AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Pain.
Palliative Surgery
Palliative surgery can improve quality of life for cancer patients, even when the patient's cancer is advanced and even when the necessary surgery is quite aggressive.
Betty R. Ferrell, Ph.D., reported at the annual American Cancer Society science writers seminar on a retrospective review of 1,915 cases involving patients undergoing surgery for cancer, of which 240 (12.5%) were considered palliative. These patients had a 30-day mortality of 12.2% and a 1-year mortality of 23.3%.
A review of medical records indicated that patients experienced significant quality of life improvements, including the relief of pain, control of symptoms, improved function, and the ability to enjoy their remaining lives, said Dr. Ferrell of City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif.
Dr. Ferrell cautioned that a patient's goals and values are important in making decisions about palliative surgery The goal may be to be more functional or to live to attend a child's graduation or an upcoming wedding. Patients may have different values regarding pain control, or indignity, or the ability to continue to work or to function in their families.
Optimal Pain Control
Long-acting opioids, such as oxycodone, have received a bad rap in recent months from several mainstream press reports of their ...
- The manager and pain control for patients. (Nexus: ethics, law, and management).
- Hospital Topics Darr, Kurt September 22, 2001 700+ words
...have been reluctant to provide adequate pain control. Some of this reluctance may result...denied patients the highly effective pain control that comes from substances such as heroin...States. Reluctance to prescribe adequate pain control may also be linked to a belief that...
- Pain control in recovering alcoholics: effects of local anesthesia.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Studies on Alcohol Fiset, Louis Leroux, Brian Rothen, Marilynn Prall, Chris Zhu, Charlene Ramsay, Douglas S. May 1, 1997 700+ words
...pharmacological methods for general anesthetics/pain control (Couderc et al., 1984; Fassoulaki...In dentistry, lack of adequate pain control may lead to fear and long-term avoidance...Regieretal., 1990). Differences in pain control between alcoholics and nonalcoholics...
- Hospitals put emphasis on pain control.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Majeski, Tom January 11, 2001 700+ words
...Nurses and doctors are being trained in pain-control practices and, in turn, are asking...never a big enough push to make (better pain control) mandatory nationwide. And now there...Zaccagnini, a clinical nurse specialist and pain-control expert at St. Paul's United Hospital...
- Bovine pain control.
- Magazine article from: Dairy Today Mohr, Paula March 3, 2004 700+ words
...tune are producers when it comes to pain control in these cattle? According to some...next step in herd health by tuning into pain control and management. The rationale for practicing pain control on dairies is varied, says veterinarian...
- Bovine pain control: greater on-farm awareness needed for this new management...
- Magazine article from: Dairy Today Mohr, Paula February 1, 2004 700+ words
...tune are producers when it comes to pain control in these cattle? According to some...next step in herd health by tuning into pain control and management. The rationale for practicing pain control on dairies is varied, says veterinarian...
- MAGNET Nationwide GPO Awards Contract to McKinley Medical for ACCUFUSER(R) and...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 28, 2005 700+ words
...Will Supply Disposable Post-Operative Pain Control Pumps to MAGNET-Affiliated Healthcare...to supply disposable post-operative pain control pumps to MAGNET-affiliated healthcare...makes the ACCUFUSER(R) Post-Op Pain Control Pump and AutoMed(R) Ambulatory Infusion...
- Better pain control for ambulatory cancer patients is needed.
- Newspaper article from: Biotech Week October 15, 2003 700+ words
...com & NewsRx.net) -- Better pain control for ambulatory cancer patients is needed...Israel, "To evaluate the degree of pain control among ambulatory cancer patients visiting...moderately-to-severely impacted. Pain control was not associated with any of the sociodemographic...
- It's not all in your head: Descending neural mechanisms of placebo-induced pain...
- Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health September 13, 2009 700+ words
...study reveals that when it comes to pain control, the "placebo effect" involves evolutionarily old pain control pathways in the human brainstem...recruits the opioidergic descending pain control system, which inhibits pain processing...
