EFFICACY OF TRANSDERMAL FENTANYL FOR CHRONIC NEUROPATHIC PAIN

Abstract

Chronic pam is a clinical challenge for the practicing physician. Pain is a subjective experience, influenced by a host of non mectical factors, including age, sex, culture, communication style and fear of addiction, these demographic and behavioral barriers must• be considered in assessment and in treatment.

Neuropathic pain, a major factor of difficult pain problems, it is refractory to treatment. The main problem with treating neuropathic pain is that the standard array of non narcotic analgesics, but no treatment is universally successful.