Prevalencia y caracterización del dolor irruptivo oncológico (DIO) en pacientes hospitalizados en Vigo. Estudio DOLOPAHO

Abstract

Background and methods: Pain is often inadequately treated in patients with cancer. Although in recent years there have been major advances in the treatment of pain, there are still gaps for a global treatment, such as breakthrouth cancer pain (BCP). A total of 115 cancer patients admitted consecutively were analyzed, regardless of the reason for admission. The main objective was to evaluate the prevalence of BCP in this sample, in order to see if pain is the main reason for admission in these patients, as well as determine if they are treated and diagnosed correctly previously to admission. The variables analyzed in relation to breakthrough pain were the following: presence of breakthrough pain according to the Davies scale; similarity of breakthrough pain crisis to each other and to baseline pain; number of irruptive episodes pain attacks