title: [Treatment and control of pain].
abstract: The therapeutic strategies which medicine today offers to treat pain present a great variety therefore, this process has a multitude of factors affecting it. This article describes criteria for security and vigilance while treating pain, the methods available to evaluate them, the concept of tolerance and dependency on drugs, and this article mentions the most frequently used drugs, plus their administration methods and most common adverse effects.
authors: Servicio de Anestesiología, Reanimación y Terapia del Dolor, Centro Médico Teknon, Barcelona. perblay@yahoo.es
authors: Laura
authors: L
authors: Pérez Blay
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy; D059408:Pain Management