Pain management in the geriatric population.
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Pain is a highly prevalent and clinically important problem in the elderly. Unfortunately, due to difficulties in assessing pain in geriatric patients, the complexities of multiple comorbidities, and the high prevalence of polypharmacy, many practitioners are reluctant to treat pain aggressively in this unique patient population. Safe and effective treatment therefore, requires a working knowledge of the physiologic changes associated with aging, the challenges of accurately assessing pain, the unique effects of common therapeutic agents upon the elderly as well as the importance of adjunctive therapies. The following review is intended to provide the practitioner with practical knowledge for safer and more effective treatment of pain.
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Authors: Robert Borsheski, Quinn L Johnson
Language: English
Subfield: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2419126606