Opioids for the management of breakthrough pain in cancer patients

G Zeppetella, AN Davies - Cochrane Database of Systematic …, 2013 - cochranelibrary.com
… to determine the effectiveness of opioids in relieving breakthrough pain and the incidence
of … use of oral and nasal transmucosal fentanyl citrate (an opioid medicine that relieves pain

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review of rapid-onset opioids for breakthrough pain

H Smith - CNS drugs, 2012 - Springer
Breakthrough pain (BTP) is a transitory pain (reaching maximum severity in ∼15 minutes …
Breakthrough pain (BTP) is a transitory pain that occurs despite the use of long-term, around…

Managing breakthrough pain

S Mercadante - Current pain and headache reports, 2011 - Springer
Breakthrough pain (BTcP) has been defined as a transitory increase in pain intensity that
occurs … of analgesic effect of rapid-onset and oral opioids for the treatment of breakthrough pain

Breakthrough pain: definition, prevalence and characteristics

RK Portenoy, NA Hagen - Pain, 1990 - Elsevier
… that the clinical use of the term 'breakthrough pain' encompasses a diverse group of painful
ex… For example, the decision to exclude opioid use from the definition of breakthrough pain

The use of opioids for breakthrough pain in acute palliative care unit by using doses proportional to opioid basal regimen

S Mercadante, P Villari, P Ferrera… - … journal of pain, 2010 - journals.lww.com
… and safety of different opioids used in doses proportional to the basal opioid regimen for
the management of breakthrough pain (BP) were assessed. The choice of the opioid to be …

The treatment of breakthrough pain

BH McCarberg - Pain Medicine, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Breakthrough pain can often be successfully treated by tailoring opioid therapy based on
the … These characteristics of BTP will determine the most appropriate opioid compound (ie, …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and characteristics of breakthrough pain in opioid-treated patients with chronic noncancer pain

RK Portenoy, DS Bennett, R Rauck, S Simon… - … Journal of Pain, 2006 - Elsevier
breakthrough pain is highly prevalent and varied in opioid-treated patients with chronic
noncancer pain… These findings will assist clinicians in assessing and managing this type of pain. …

Factors influencing the use of opioids for breakthrough cancer pain: A secondary analysis of the IOPS‐MS study

S Mercadante, C Adile, F Masedu… - … Journal of Pain, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… about the choice and the doses of opioid medication in breakthrough cancer pain (BTcP). …
In conclusion, the use of opioids for BTcP was effective and safe in a large sample of cancer …

The use of rapid onset opioids for breakthrough cancer pain: the challenge of its dosing

S Mercadante - Critical reviews in oncology/hematology, 2011 - Elsevier
… the use of opioids for the treatment of BTcP, with special emphasis on the use of new rapid
onset opioids (ROOs). … Working group of an IASP task force on cancer pain breakthrough pain

Recent development in therapeutics for breakthrough pain

MP Davis - Expert review of neurotherapeutics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
breakthrough pain: titration of the chronic opioid, independent titration of rescue opioids and
… Newer fentanyl preparations have been released to manage breakthrough pain in the opioid