[Best practice of pain management with opioids].
Opioids are main drugs in pain management for terminal cancer patients. In these days, we have to choice suitable opioids for the terminal cancer patients with severe pain by opioids rotation. Morphine is a basic drug in opioids. To know about character of morphine make us easy for using other opioids. In this article, character and some points in using opioids were described in detail. For example, timing for administrating opioids, titration, rescue dose, and side effects were included in this article. We don't have to remember the aim of pain management. Pain control is not a purpose, but a way for keeping QOL of the terminal cancer patients.
Hayashi
Akitoshi
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Palliative Care Department, St. Luke's International Hospital.
D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013727:Terminal Care
D000701:Analgesics, Opioid