Introduction to Management of Breakthrough Pain in Cancer Patients

Read full synopsis: http://www.hcplive.com/peer-exchange/... In the first installment of the Management of Breakthrough Pain in Cancer Patients video series, moderator Jeffrey A. Gudin, MD, Director of the Pain Management Center at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, NJ, defines breakthrough cancer pain with the panel, which consists of Charles E. Argoff, MD, Professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College and Director of the Comprehensive Pain Center at Albany Medical Center; Jeri Ashley, RN, MSN, AOCNS, CHPN, System Director for Life Planning and Palliative Medicine Services at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis, TN; Vitaly Gordin, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Associate Vice-Chair of Chronic Pain, and Director of Pain Medicine Division at Penn State Hershey Pain Management; and Marc Rappaport, DO, Medical Oncologist at the Western Connecticut Medical Group in Danbury, CT.