Retrospective Evaluation of Pain and Pain Management in Lung Cancer Patients


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  • Lütfiye Pirbudak Çöçelli Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon AD
  • İbrahim Tuncel Düziçi Devlet Hastanesi Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Kliniği
  • Süleyman Ganidağlı Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon AD
  • Ünsal Öner Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon AD

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58600/eurjther.2010-16-2-1248-arch

Keywords:

Lung Cancer, Malign Pain, Pain management

Abstract

We investigated nature of pain and effectiveness of pain management methods applied of the primary lung cancer patients, if their pain's due to primary cancer or metastasis. In this retrospective study, patients with primary lung cancer who treated in our pain clinic were included in this study between January 2004 and January 2009. They were questionared for the pain localisation, onset time and exacerbation period of pain, characteristics of the pain(neuropatic or visserral), VAS, metastasis of cancer, related to cancer treatment. In addition pain affects on sleep, quality of life were questionared. Analgesic therapy and interventional methods applied were examined. One hundered twenty one patients (11 women, 110 men) had applied to pain clinic between the years 2004 -2008. Age range of the patients was 30-80 years. 92 patients defined neuropatic pain, 29 patients defined visseral pain. The localization of pain were mostly at back, shoulder, upper abdomen, lib and legs. In 25 patients pain were primary due to lung cancer, 96 patients' were due to metastasis. Visseral pain had acute onset, within 2 weeks of duration. Onset time of neuropatic pain was 3 months. Exacerbation period of visseral pain was meanly a week, and neuropatic pain was meanly 3 months. We started appropriate treatment from WHO ladder treatments according to their pains. We applicated central or peripheral nevre blockade when medical treatment didn't work in 24 hours. In 95 patients (78.5%) medical treatment worked. But in 26 (21.5 %) patients pain was under-control with central or blockade additional to medical treatment. In 16 of 26 nerve blockade patients, we inserted epidural catheter and in the other 10 patients we applicated intercostal nevre blockade. We applicated suprascapular blockade to 7 patients having shoulder pain. Almost every patients had mood and sleep disorders. We determined that patients with primary lung cancer who admitted to our pain clinic have mostly neuropatic pain usually secondary to metastasis. On the other hand, patients who described visceral pain have shorter duration of pain onset. Pain was controlled with either medical or interventional methods in all patients.

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2010-05-01

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Pirbudak Çöçelli, L., Tuncel, İbrahim, Ganidağlı, S., & Öner, Ünsal. (2010). Retrospective Evaluation of Pain and Pain Management in Lung Cancer Patients. European Journal of Therapeutics, 16(2), 5–10. https://doi.org/10.58600/eurjther.2010-16-2-1248-arch

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