TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 71. Neuraxial Drug Delivery A1 - Du Pen, Stuart L. A1 - Du Pen, Anna R. A2 - Warfield, Carol A. A2 - Bajwa, Zahid H. PY - 2004 T2 - Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine, 2e AB - The use of neuraxial analgesia for the goal of functional analgesia is the next step beyond the optimum use of oral and transcutaneous analgesia. The goal of pain relief with functional restitution should be the guiding light of all approaches of analgesia. Once a patient with acute, chronic, or cancer-related pain has been prescribed a trial of opioids and adjuvant drugs, side effects having been either treated or avoided with opioid sequential trials, then consideration should be given to alternative delivery sources. Neuraxial analgesia, with either single agent or a combination of drugs, may allow the patient to achieve relief of intractable pain when opioid analgesia alone has its limits. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3421355 ER -