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Clinical Corner: Pain Management

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Important New REMS Information

Purdue Pharma, L.P. is introducing a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for OxyContin® (oxycodone HCl controlled-release) Tablets CII to educate physicians and other prescribers, pharmacists, patients, and caregivers about the potential for abuse, misuse, overdose, and addiction from exposure to OxyContin® Tablets.

The goals of the OxyContin® REMS program are:

  • Goal 1. To inform patients and healthcare professionals about the potential for abuse, misuse, overdose, and addiction of OxyContin®
  • Goal 2. To inform patients and healthcare professionals about the safe use of OxyContin®

For more information go to: www.OxyContinREMS.com or the FDA website.


Articles

Palliation Issues in LTC (Caring for the Ages, August 2004, Vol. 5, No. 8, p. 9-15)

Pain Barriers (Caring for the Ages, June 2004, Vol. 5, No. 6, p. 68-72)

Vital Sign #5 (Caring for the Ages, May 2004, Vol. 5 No. 5, p. 26-35)

The Policies of Pain (Caring for the Ages, August 2003, Vol. 4, No. 8, p. 20-23)

Pain in the Elderly: Listen to the Patient's Voice (Caring for the Ages, April 2003, Vol. 4 No. 4, p. 44-47)

Courts Weigh In on Use of Drugs for Assisted Suicide & Pain Management (Caring for the Ages, September 2002, Vol. 3, No. 9, p. 29-30)

Pain Management in End-of-Life Care: Are We Meeting Our Dying Patients' Needs? (Caring for the Ages, July 2002, Vol. 3, No. 7, p. 12-15)

Opioids Can Safely Ease Chronic Non-Malignant Pain (Caring for the Ages, July 2002, Vol. 3, No. 7, p. 1, 26-29)

Protocol Pinpoints Discomfort in Late-Stage Dementia Patients (Caring for the Ages, October 2001, Vol. 2, No. 10, p. 1)

Toward a Good Death in the Nursing Home: Pain Management & Hospice are Key (Caring for the Ages, July 2001, Vol. 2, No. 7, p. 24-26)

Tools and Resources

Geriatric Pain Site for Nurses

Clinical Practice Guidelines News: Pain Management

Symptom Acuity Graph (Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format)

Reference Bibliography

Education & CME Programs

Pain Management in the Long Term Care Setting (AMDA self-study CME program released April 2004)

Products & Publications

Pain Management in the Long-Term Care Setting (AMDA Clinical Practice Guideline published 1999, revised 2009)

Tool Kit for Implementation of the Clinical Practice Guideline for Pain Management (AMDA CPG Implementation Toolkit published 2004)

Links

American Academy of Pain Management

American Pain Society

International Association for the Study of Pain®

Opioid conversion calculator

Worldwide Congress on Pain
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