Jul 23, 2008

Timely stop pain!

Now at home and abroad, cancer specialists are concerned about the problem of pain, pain or even be regarded as the "fifth vital sign", meaning that doctors should, as concerned about the patient's blood pressure, pulse, breathing and body temperature of patients concerned about the same pain.

Do not think that "as long as had cancer will certainly hurt, the pain is a normal phenomenon." Pain is in itself a disease, not just the symptoms of cancer, clinicians should be attention. The pain of cancer patients with anorexia will, emotional suffering from depression or even depression, regardless of the patient or family members are unable to guarantee the quality of life. Therefore, the pain medication every cancer patient's basic rights must be respected.

Cancer patients pain medication addiction risk of less than 0.1%

In real life, because people there had been a misunderstanding on pain medication, making the rights are not protected. "Pain medication that patients would addiction" is such misunderstanding of the most prominent one.

"Three of cancer pain ladder programme," the first step in drugs, aspirin and other drugs are represented by non-opioid analgesics, if the treatment fails, the second step need to use drugs, that is, weak opioids, for example, Question because, Qi Manding, this could be the 120 Step drug use, dosage can be reduced, if the effect is not ideal at this time, the need for third ladder drugs, that is, strong opioid drugs such as morphine. As long as the pain in accordance with the scientific programme, cancer patients taking the "addiction" the ratio of no more than 1 ‰.

Cancer patients at home can also pain

The severity of the cancer and the degree of pain is not entirely consistent. Some cancer early will result in a very intense pain, because the patient must not belong to the early and mechanical copying of the "three step plan," that early stage cancer patients must be the first step drugs. Is the use of the drug, depending on the patient's pain level and the effect of drugs.

In recent years, pain medicine have made continuous progress in the research, "three steps" drugs are all oral drugs, patients can be treated at home, the effect of不比injection poor, and to maintain the road. In addition, such as pain paste the advent of new formulations for the treatment more convenient. However, still some pain medication invalid. Cancer pain in the nerve to the most unbearable pain, pancreatic cancer or other abdominal tumor suppression celiac plexus, transferred to the spinal cord tumor suppression, it will cause severe pain day and night None of these patients often need at this time the so-called "Fourth analgesic ladder" treatment, anaesthetists and even surgeons, can be cut off or damaged nerve to relieve the pain.

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