Breakthrough Pain - Dolor Irruptivo.com

Opioid Treatment of Breakthrough Pain:
Unresolved Issues
• Conclusions
– A consensus-driven treatment strategy may be helpful:
• Assessment
• Treating pain etiology or precipitating events
• Optimizing baseline analgesic regimen, and
• Using symptomatic pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic
therapies
– Use of “rescue doses” has become conventional practice for
cancer-related breakthrough pain and appears to be useful
– Role of rapid onset formulations is evolving