Pharmacological Treatments and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Patients with Chronic Pain.

ABSTRACT: Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that affects every aspect of a patient's life and which may be treated through different pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches. Analgesics are the drugs most commonly used to treat pain, and in specific situations, the use of opioids may be considered with caution. These drugs, in fact, do not always induce optimal analgesia in patients, and several problems are associated with their use. The purpose of this narrative review is to describe the pharmacological approaches currently used for the management of chronic pain. We review several aspects, from the pain-scale-based methods currently available to assess the type and intensity of pain, to the most frequently administered drugs (non-narcotic analgesics and narcotic ana

SUBMITTER: De Rosa F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10457775 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature