Pain and pain measurement at oncology patients in the Hospis (Review of a problem and methods of the possible(probable) decision)
The questions of therapy of a pain at oncological patients are the primary questions of palliative treatment. The subjectivity of a pain doesn’t make it possible to measure the pain impulse and remains unresolved till nowadays. The authors propose a method of correction the pain syndromes in oncology based on pain assessment using the original visual analog scale, taking into account the circadian rhythms. Materials and methods. For revealing daily laws of pain sensation we made the research of dynamics of pain in 82 patients, suffering from chronic pain syndrome (CPS). Conclusion. Circadian visual analog scale of pain is a convenient and simple way for definition of intensity of pain. It reveals dynamic of daily pain sensations, acrophase of pain during the day. Also it gives you the opportunity to select and correct the individual analgesia at the patients suffering with CPS in the hospital and hospice service outside the hospital.