title: [Management of pain in palliative care].
abstract: Palliative pain management is usually successful, if the medication is strengthened in a stepwise manner in accordance with pain intensity, and initiation of a strong opioid is not delayed. Finding of a sufficiently effective dose of the opioid drug with simultaneous management of adverse effects requires continuous pain assessment and patient monitoring. In many cases it is possible to enhance analgesia by supplementing the medication with an antidepressant or an antiepileptic along with the opioid and paracetamol or the analgesic. Palliative radiotherapy will relieve tissue injury pain caused by bone metastases and soft tissue tumors as well as pain due to the possible nerve entrapments caused by them.
authors.affiliation: HYKS, kipuklinikka.
authors.forename: Tarja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Heiskanen
authors.forename: Katri
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hamunen
authors.forename: Outi
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hirvonen
mesh_terms: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D000927:Anticonvulsants; D000928:Antidepressive Agents