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Opioid Rotation in Cancer Pain Treatment
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Schuster M
; Bayer O
; Heid F
; Laufenberg-Feldmann R
Dtsch Arztebl Int
2018[Mar]; 115
(9
): 135-142
PMID29563006
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BACKGROUND: Rotating several different WHO level III opioid drugs is a
therapeutic option for patients with chronic cancer-related pain who suffer from
inadequate analgesia and/or intolerable side effects. The evidence favoring
opioid rotation is controversial, and the current guidelines in Germany and other
countries contain only weak recommendations for it. METHODS: This review is based
on pertinent publications retrieved by a systematic review of the literature on
opioid rotation for adult patients with chronic cancerrelated pain who are
regularly taking WHO level III opioids by the oral or trans - dermal route.
RESULTS: 9 individual studies involving a total of 725 patients were included in
the analysis, and 3 previous systematic reviews of studies involving a total of
2296 patients were also analyzed. Morphine, oxycodone, fentanyl, hydromorphone,
and buprenorphine were used as first-line opioid drugs, and hydromorphone, bupre
- norphine, tapentadol, fentanyl, morphine, oxymorphone, and methadone were used
as second-line opioid drugs. In all of the studies, pain control was achieved for
14 days after each rotation. In most of them, the dose of the new drug introduced
in each rotation needed to be increased above the dose initially calculated from
a rotation ratio, with the exception of rotations to methadone. The frequency of
side effects was only rarely lessened, but patients largely considered the result
of opioid rotation to be positive. No particular opioid drug was found to be
best. CONCLUSION: Opioid rotation can improve analgesia and patient satisfaction.
The success of opioid rotation appears to depend on the magnitude of the initial
dose, among other factors. Tables of equianalgesic doses should be considered no
more than a rough guide for determining the dose of the new drug. Rotations to
methadone should be carried out under clinical supervision in experienced hands.
|Analgesics, Opioid/*administration & dosage/therapeutic use
[MESH]
|Buprenorphine/administration & dosage/therapeutic use
[MESH]
|Cancer Pain/*drug therapy
[MESH]
|Chronic Pain/drug therapy
[MESH]
|Fentanyl/administration & dosage/therapeutic use
[MESH]
|Germany
[MESH]
|Humans
[MESH]
|Hydromorphone/administration & dosage/therapeutic use
[MESH]
|Morphine/administration & dosage/therapeutic use
[MESH]
|Neoplasms/complications
[MESH]
|Oxycodone/administration & dosage/therapeutic use
[MESH]