Abstract

DE LOS SANTOS, Héctor; FRUGONI, Bettina; GUEDES, Ana  and  REDIN, Adriana. Decision making on refractory pain in a young oncological patient. Enfermería (Montevideo) [online]. 2019, vol.8, n.1, pp.48-58. ISSN 1688-8375.  https://doi.org/10.22235/ech.v8i1.1796.

The vast majority of cancer patients in advanced stages feel pain. Most are controlled with analgesics following the WHO analgesic ladder. However, a percentage of patients persist feeling pain. These are patients with difficult-to-control pain who often benefit from interventional measures. An even smaller percentage of patients keep on feeling pain as a refractory symptom despite adequate therapeutic measures. In these cases, palliative sedation is indicated. We present the case of a young patient with refractory pain who required palliative sedation in a palliative care unit of a private institution in Montevideo

Keywords : Pain; clinical management; palliative care; sedation.

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