Publications by authors named "F Le Caer"
Article Synopsis
- - This study highlighted the absence of guidelines for ketamine use in chronic pain in Europe, prompting a Delphi survey among experts to create a national consensus.
- - The survey involved 28 specialists and found that 81.3% of the items achieved consensus, emphasizing ketamine's effectiveness primarily for neuropathic pain and a preferred administration method via intravenous infusion.
- - The final conclusions support quarterly ketamine treatments in a hospital setting, a one-month effectiveness evaluation, and the recommendation to combine ketamine use with non-drug therapies.
While pain remains a burden for many cancer patients, their active involvement in dealing with it through therapeutic patient education (TPE) has proved effective in overcoming hurdles to pain management. This article describes how a regional TPE programme devoted to cancer pain was set up, as well as the difficulties and opportunities encountered during its implementation. Ten nurse-doctor pairs from the chronic pain units of Lower Normandy, after being trained in TPE, designed and built the EFFADOL (Ensemble Faire Face A la DOuLeur [Cope together with pain]) programme.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Supportive care development has created new needs in patients' care pathway. In order to anticipate, evaluate, and take care of patients' needs, a supportive care dedicated hospitalization ward was created in late 2016 in our comprehensive cancer center, including 15 beds (11 for week care and 4 for day care). We aimed to assess the activity of this supportive care ward in 2018.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Social isolation potentiates the risk of death by cancer in the older cancer patient population. The PREDOMOS study investigates the impact of establishing a Program of Social intervention associated with techniques of Domotic and Remote assistance on the improvement of quality of life of older isolated patients, treated for locally advanced or metastatic cancer. This paper updates the pilot trial protocol.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Sensitive skin syndrome (SSS) is defined as the occurrence of unpleasant sensations (itch, pain, burning, prickling) in response to stimuli that should not normally cause such sensations. Previous studies show that SSS could be a small fibre neuropathy, but quantitative sensory testing (QST) is lacking.
Objectives: Using QST, to determine the presence or absence of tactile sensitivity disorder, mainly heat pain threshold (HPT), in patients with SSS.