Sitting with you in your suffering: Lessons about intractable pain at the end of life

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 779-782

  Sudore, Rebecca L ^a   Villars, Patrice ^a   Carey, Elise C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BUPIVACAINE; DEXAMETHASONE; FENTANYL; HYDROMORPHONE; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; LORAZEPAM; METHADONE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANUS CARCINOMA; CANCER PAIN; CASE REPORT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEDICAL SERVICE; NEUROTOXICITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PSYCHOLOGY; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 77954449799     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2009.0325     Document Type: Review

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