Role of practitioner in management of patients with chronic pain

The physicians of primary medicine occupy a key diagnostic position because they guide early pain management and they have a central role in the selection of the patients (triaging) for specific therapeutic approaches. Pharmacological therapy is selected based on the type of pain: determining pain a...

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Main Authors: Francesco Amato (Author), Erminia Gilda Morrone (Author)
Format: Book
Published: Publiediting, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary:The physicians of primary medicine occupy a key diagnostic position because they guide early pain management and they have a central role in the selection of the patients (triaging) for specific therapeutic approaches. Pharmacological therapy is selected based on the type of pain: determining pain as to nociceptive or neuropathic is the prerequisite for adopting the correct approach. Only having investigated with attention and clarified all these aspects it is possible to prescribe a suitable analgesic therapy and to appraise its effectiveness in the time.
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