High-dose epidural infusion of opioids for cancer pain: cost issues.

Abstract:

:The safety and efficacy of intraspinal opioids as therapy for selected patients with cancer pain are well-established. The choice of the appropriate drug is influenced by many variables that are to date incompletely elucidated. The cost of therapy is an increasingly important component of decision-making. This report describes the management of a patient who achieved excellent pain control with the administration of epidural sufentanil and bupivacaine. Daily Average Wholesale Price for sufentanil was, however, $698. Until the data comparing the efficacy of different epidurally administered opioids in the treatment of cancer pain are available, we suggest that treatment with more costly opioids be reserved for patients for whom analgesia cannot be achieved after maximizing epidural morphine analgesia with aggressive side-effect management.

journal_name

J Pain Symptom Manage

authors

Manfredi PL,Chandler SW,Patt R,Payne R

doi

10.1016/s0885-3924(96)00266-7

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-02-01 00:00:00

pages

118-21

issue

2

eissn

0885-3924

issn

1873-6513

pii

S0885392496002667

journal_volume

13

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