Publications by authors named "Virith Sep Hieng"
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- - 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.
Pain, one of the most feared symptoms for patients with cancer, remains insufficiently alleviated and impairs quality of life. Therapeutic patient education (TPE) is a relevant approach to this problem while allowing patients to develop skills to better manage their pain. In the "Basse-Normandie" French region, the management of pain relies on two organized networks, thus allowing proximity and accessibility for all concerned.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the field of cancer pain, therapeutic patient education (TPE) allows patients to develop skills to better manage their pain. In the Lower Normandy region of France, the management of pain is based on networking, thus allowing proximity and accessibility for all concerned. We have thus designed and initiated a broad five-stage research program that includes the following: (1) training for caregivers in TPE; (2) identifying the educational expectations of patients and their relatives with regard to cancer pain; (3) the design of a TPE program; (4) the evaluation of its quality; and (5) the evaluation of its effectiveness by comparative randomization.
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