"I'm Charles von Gunten, Provost of The Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice. I want to talk about getting the pain under control quickly when there's a pain crisis. We've called this a "pain code."
Imagine a patient who has advanced cancer who has been admitted to the hospital complaining of 10 out of 10 pain. Your goal is to get the pain under control quickly. The most important fact to remember is this -- the time to pain control is the same as the time to the maximum concentration of the opioid in the blood."
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Imagine a patient who has advanced cancer who has been admitted to the hospital complaining of 10 out of 10 pain. Your goal is to get the pain under control quickly. The most important fact to remember is this -- the time to pain control is the same as the time to the maximum concentration of the opioid in the blood."
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