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Management of pain in the terminally III by administration of epidural narcotics
Author(s) -
Malone Brian T.,
Beye Richard,
Walker Joseph
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19850115)55:2<438::aid-cncr2820550224>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - medicine , intractable pain , epidural administration , surgery , anesthesia , catheter , terminally ill , palliative care , morphine , nursing
Fifteen patients with chronic malignant intractable pain were given epidural narcotics for periods of up to 280 days. The majority were treated at home. The patients self‐administered the narcotics through an indwelling epidural catheter that had been tunneled and brought out onto the anterior abdominal wall. The results are presented together with the problems encountered.