Rapid titration with intravenous morphine for severe cancer pain and immediate oral conversion

Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 203-208

  Mercadante, Sebastiano ^a,b   Villari, Patrizia ^a   Ferrera, Patrizia ^a   Casuccio, Alessandra ^c   Fulfaro, Fabio ^b  

^a LA MADDALENA CANCER CENTER   (Italy)

^b SAMOT Onlus   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer pain; Epidemiologic study; Intravenous route; Morphine titration; Opioids; Pain emergencies

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; HALOPERIDOL; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; PILOCARPINE; STEROID;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE CALCULATION; DROWSINESS; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG MONITORING; DYSURIA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA; NURSING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SWEATING; TITRIMETRY; VERTIGO; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; NEOPLASMS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE;

EID: 0036645264     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10636     Document Type: Article

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