A fixed inhaled nitrous oxide/oxygen mixture as an analgesic for adult cancer patients with breakthrough pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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• 作者：Qiang Liu ; Yu Wang ; Xiang-Jiang Luo ; Ning-Ju Wang ; Ping Chen ; Xin Jin ; Guo-Xia Mu…
• 关键词：Analgesia ; Breakthrough pain ; Cancer patients ; Nitrous oxide
• 刊名：Trials
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：18
• 期：1
• 全文大小：601KB
• 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Biomedicine, general; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1745-6215
• 卷排序：18

文摘

BackgroundThe management of breakthrough pain in cancer patients is always a challenge for medical professions. Occurring in 80% of cancer patients with advanced disease, breakthrough pain significantly decreases both patient’s and caregiver’s quality of life. The aim of this study is to assess the analgesic efficacy of a fixed inhaled nitrous oxide/oxygen mixture for adult cancer patients with breakthrough pain.