The management of pain due to amputation

J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother. 2008;22(1):57-60. doi: 10.1080/15360280801989484.

Abstract

Current approaches to the management of pain due to amputation are presented by two Spanish pain specialists with additional commentaries on care of such patients by pain specialists from Belgium and the United Kingdom. Contemporary pharmacotherapy and nondrug interventions are described.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Analgesics, Opioid / administration & dosage
  • Analgesics, Opioid / therapeutic use*
  • Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use*
  • Delayed-Action Preparations
  • Disarticulation*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Neoplasms / physiopathology
  • Oxycodone / administration & dosage
  • Oxycodone / therapeutic use*
  • Pain / drug therapy*
  • Palliative Care*
  • Phantom Limb / drug therapy

Substances

  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • Anticonvulsants
  • Delayed-Action Preparations
  • Oxycodone