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Treatment of visceral pain
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Last reviewed: 20.11.2021
Particularly relevant is the problem of visceral pain for cancer patients. More than half of the cancer patients suffer from pain of varying intensity.
As for the treatment of pain syndrome in cancer patients, the main role, as well as many years ago, is given to pharmacotherapy - non-narcotic and narcotic analgesics, applied according to a three-stage scheme:
- Choose a drug that eliminates or reduces pain in 2-3 days;
- prescribe analgesics according to the "hour" scheme, when the next dose is administered before the termination of the previous and
- anesthesia "on the ascending" - from the maximum weak to the minimum potent dose.
The main emphasis is, as before, on opioids, and with very severe pain, it is advisable to inject drugs epidurally or subarachnoidally.