Interventional Anesthesia and Palliative Care Collaboration to Manage Cancer Pain: a Narrative Review

Overview

Journal Can J Anaesth

Specialty Anesthesiology

Date 2019 Oct 2

PMID 31571119

Citations 4

Authors

Jenny Lau

David Flamer

Patricia Murphy-Kane

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Abstract

Pain is a common symptom associated with advanced cancer. An estimated 66.4% of people with advanced cancer experience pain from their disease or treatment. Pain management is an essential component of palliative care. Opioids and adjuvant therapies are the mainstay of cancer pain management. Nevertheless, a proportion of patients may experience complex pain that is not responsive to conventional analgesia. Interventional analgesia procedures may be appropriate and necessary to manage complex, cancer-related pain. This narrative review uses a theoretical case to highlight core principles of palliative care and interventional anesthesia, and the importance of collaborative, interdisciplinary care. An overview and discussion of pragmatic considerations of peripheral nervous system interventional analgesic procedures and neuraxial analgesia infusions are provided.

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