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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to determine whether the local anesthetic bupivacaine delivered intrathecally in small doses via PTM self-administered boluses significantly improves the breakthrough pain and functional status of patients with chronic intractable pain who are managed with an intrathecal drug delivery system.
Patients with Head & Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma often need a gastrostomy. It can be performed with a radiological approach. This procedure is usually not performed under general anesthesia, but local anesthesia is not sufficient to counteract pain due to gastric insufflation and incision of the abdominal wall. Standard analgesic treatments are usually not well-fitted due to onset of action or route of administration. An alternative solution could be fentanyl nasal spray, a treatment with a fast onset of action and with easy use allowing repetition if needed, during the procedure. The purpose of this study is to compare analgesic efficacy of nasal instillation of PECFENT® to usually administered morphinic analgesic treatment with fast onset of action (ORAMORPH®), in radiologic percutaneous gastrostomy tube placement: - during the procedure - following the procedure (measured by Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for Pain at 15 min, 30 min, 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours, 6 hours and 12 hours after procedure). Secondary purposes are to compare easiness of 2 treatments and their adverse effects.
Patients treated in Palliative Care Units are potentially fragile patients, especially in our case, which are cancer patients. The management of these patients is usually done from experience, because these patients rarely meet criteria for clinical trials, as their inclusion could affect results obtained in the trial. There is insufficient clinical information on the quality of life of cancer patients with breakthrough pain treated in palliative care units according to routine clinical practice. For this reason we consider it is appropriate to prospectively evaluate the quality of life of cancer patients with cancer breakthrough pain treated in palliative care units as well as the characteristics of these patients. This post-authorization observational study will assess the quality of life of patients with breakthrough cancer pain treated in Palliative Care Units in Spanish hospitals.
In the context of radiotherapy, control of breakthrough pain represents a special challenge. Patients undergoing radiotherapy may experience different situations of pain that may be due to the need to remain immobilized during radiotherapy session, the need to wear an immobilization mask (head and neck cancer), the odynophagia caused by mucositis, defecation after the development of proctitis, or sudden pain during the night causing sleep disturbances. In a survey conducted in radiation oncology services more than half of patients treated with radiotherapy experienced pain, and 39% of patients reported that their pain was not treated properly. This situation may increase the patient's anxiety, dissatisfaction with treatment, affect their quality of life and can even come to refuse radiotherapy treatment. This post-authorization observational study will assess the quality of life of cancer patients with breakthrough cancer pain treated in radiotherapy services in Spanish hospitals.
34 adult (>18 years) cancer pain outpatients with Opioid base therapy because of pain and breakthrough pain or extreme pain on movement will be included in this prospective, randomized, double-blind crossover study. Over a period of 3 weeks patients will go through 3 treatment arms, each one lasting one week: Group A receives morphine drops and Placebo spray, Group B receives ketamine/chitosan spray nasal and Placebo drops and Group C receives morphine drops and ketamine/chitosan spray nasal. Primary endpoint is time to onset of action of intranasal ketamine compared with morphine drops. Secondary endpoint is the median numeric rating scale (NRS) improvement after using the spray or morphine or the combination of ketamine spray and morphine drops.
The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if an investigational dose of fentanyl sublingual spray (FSS) can help to control pain in patients with advanced cancer when given in an outpatient and inpatient setting.
This study aims to assess self reported procedural pain compared with background pain and evaluate pain intensity differences across six standard procedures. Besides, rescue and preventive treatments used to control procedural pain will be examined.
100 patients with Breakthrough pain will be allocated to receive either oral prioxicam (OP) (n=50) or sublingual fentanyl (SLF) (n=50) . Patients will be divided randomly into two equal groups: oral prioxicam (OP) Group and sublingual fentanyl citrate (SLF) Group, comprising of 50 patients each. Pain intensity level on a 0-10 visual analog scale (VAS), patients will be instructed about the use of a 10-cm visual analog scale (VAS) (0 = no pain to 10 = worst possible pain). frequency of Breakthrough pain throughout the day, onset of relief (0-5, 6-10, 11-15, or over 16 min), time required for dose titration, patient satisfaction and adverse effects were assessed at 3, 7, 15, and 30 days after starting the treatment.
The computer-integrated patient controlled epidural analgesia (CIPCEA) system can automatically adjust the background infusion rate during combined spinal-epidural (CSE) analgesia based on the parturient's need as labour progresses. Analysis of parturients experiencing breakthrough pain may identify associated factors that can also be related to obstetric or foetal outcomes
Epidural analgesia is the gold standard of pain relief for labour pain. Despite this, more than 50% of parturients continue to experience pain leading to suffering and increased caregiver workload. Women who have increased pain tend to have lower successful patient bolus demands when patient controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) is utilised and have dysfunctional labour requiring obstetric intervention such as Caesarean or instrumental delivery. Labour pain often escalates and worsens as labour progresses requiring an individualized, variable, flexible analgesic regimen. Bolus epidural administrations have been shown to improve uniform spread of local anaesthetics with better pain relief, compared to fixed background infusions.