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Pain Management
Pain is not inevitable. At Gustave Roussy, pain prevention, assessment, and treatment are an integral part of the care pathway. Specialized teams work alongside patients and healthcare professionals to relieve pain associated with the disease, treatments, or their consequences.
Program Director
Dr. Rita Kortbaoui
Contact
Tel.: +33 (0)1 42 11 64 47
Pain: A Priority in Care
Pain can have many causes: cancer, surgery, treatments, medical tests, or complications from the disease. Its impact often extends beyond the physical realm and can affect quality of life, sleep, eating habits, independence, and mood.
At Gustave Roussy, the goal is to identify pain early and provide care tailored to each individual’s situation through a comprehensive and personalized approach.
Pain should be reported
Regardless of its severity, it is important to discuss it with your healthcare team so that the most appropriate solutions can be implemented.
Assess to Provide Better Relief
Pain is assessed regularly using tools tailored to each patient’s age and condition. This assessment allows us to adjust treatments and measure their effectiveness over time.
Visual Analog Scale
Faces Scale
Children’s Scale
How is pain managed?
Depending on the nature and severity of the pain, various medications may be prescribed to provide effective and long-lasting relief.
Some types of pain require specialized care provided by physicians who are experts in pain management, in coordination with oncology, surgical, and radiation oncology teams.
Pain management can also draw on complementary approaches such as medical hypnosis, adapted physical activity, acupuncture, or certain relaxation techniques when appropriate.
Because the intensity of pain can change over the course of care, treatments and management strategies are regularly reassessed.
Pain Assessment and Treatment Center
The Pain Assessment and Treatment Center (CETD) at Gustave Roussy offers:
- nursing and medical consultations for outpatients
- nursing and medical consultations for inpatients
- a multidisciplinary evaluation with a psychologist and social worker,
- alternative medicine consultations (auriculotherapy, acupuncture, mesotherapy, relaxation, transcutaneous stimulation, etc.),
- telephone follow-up for patients at home.
A Pain Management Committee (CLUD) is also in operation at Gustave Roussy. It serves as a think tank and policy-making body, working in constant collaboration with the hospital administration and the Hospital Medical Conference, as well as with the clinical departments, the pharmacy, and the administrative and technical departments.
Expérimentation du cannabis à usage médical
Trials of Medical Cannabis
Gustave Roussy is participating in the National Agency for Medicines Safety’s trial on medical cannabis, announced in March 2021.
The goal is not to determine whether cannabis is effective, but rather to collect data on the feasibility and safety of prescribing cannabis in hospitals.
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