Manejo da dor em pacientes terminais: revisão integrativa.

Abstract

Pain is one of the most frequent reasons for disability and suffering for patients and because it is subjective, one does not have to measure it. Medicine management is important for the relief, control and treatment of this, often the dimension of pain is much larger than the area affected or injured by the disease itself. The present work aims to analyze the management of pain in terminal patients. The research method chosen was the integrative review, in which the descriptors management, pain, terminal patients, and a literary review were used for scientific foundation and work construction. The consultation was conducted in data from the PubMed, Scielo, National Cancer Institute (INCA), Journal of Medicine Palliatives, Uptodate, Cancer Relief Commission USA, www.painphysicianjournal.com, Ministry of Health to obtain current statistical data, and have been published within a period of 15 (fifteen) years (2001, 2005, 2010, 2012 to 2016). The selection resulted in eleven articles, which met the criteria of inclusion of the research, being initiated the reading and analysis of the scientific productions. After analyzing the articles, the most relevant ones were selected and grouped with the intention of facilitating the comparison between pain management: success of pharmacology and care of professionals in drug management, understanding of pain, palliative treatment for pain relief, opioids, and analgesics. The analysis showed similar results in the treatment of terminally patients with pain, where most of the articles studied presented relevant information that gave background to the subject and very important for this analysis, therefore, the evidences of the studies performed were very important, since it presented the reality, Which made the scientific evidence more applicable to clinical practice.