Opioids in cancer pain
By: edited by Karen Forbes.
Contributors: Forbes, Karen.
Series: Oxford pain management library
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780199218806
Subjects: Cancer pain -- Chemotherapy; Opioids -- Therapeutic use; Pain -- drug therapy; Analgesics, Opioid -- therapeutic use; Neoplasms -- complications; Pain -- etiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The principles of management of pain due to cancer / Karen Forbes; title: The range of treatments for pain due to cancer / Peter Hoskin; title: The development and efficacy of the WHO analgesic ladder / Augusto Caraceni, Stefan Grond; title: Opioid receptors / Catherine E. Urch; title: Starting opioids for moderate to severe pain : talking to the patient / Karen Forbes, Colette Reid; title: Principles of opioid titration / Marie Fallon, Sandra McConnell; title: Management of adverse effects / Marie Fallon, Sandra McConnell; title: Morphine / Marie Fallon, Sandra McConnell; title: Oxycodone / Collette Reid, Eija Kalso; title: Hydromorphone / Naeem Ahmed, Catherine E. Urch; title: Methadone / Matt Makin; title: Other alternative oral opioids / Matt Makin; title: Transdermal opioids / Luke Feathers, Christina Faull; title: Other routes of opioid administration / Giovambattista Zeppetella; title: Spinal opioids / Karen H. Simpson, Ganesan Baranidharan; title: Parenteral opioids / Jeremy R. Johnson; title: Opioids in special circumstances / Fliss Murtagh, Polly Edmonds, Chris Farnham; title: Appendix : dose converting when switching from oral morphine to transdermal fentanyl.