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break through painkiller

English translation: break through pain (pain killer against this type of pain)

06:33 Sep 10, 2010
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care
English term or phrase: break through painkiller
How many times did you take your break through painkiller?
[what does the word 'break-through' refer to?)
kgas
Poland
Local time: 02:52
Selected answer:break through pain (pain killer against this type of pain)
Explanation:
See this information:

break through cancer pain:
http://www.cancer-pain.org/treatments/breakthrough.html

HTH :-)
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MMUlr
Germany
Local time: 02:52
Grading comment
Thank you!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +6break through pain (pain killer against this type of pain)
MMUlr
5 -1a major discovery..an innovative soloution..a major progress.. in a painkiller
airmailrpl
Summary of reference entries provided
accès douloureux transitoires, pics douloureux
Helen Genevier
Pain Relief & Breakthrough Pain
Stephanie Ezrol

  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
break through pain (pain killer against this type of pain)


Explanation:
See this information:

break through cancer pain:
http://www.cancer-pain.org/treatments/breakthrough.html

HTH :-)

MMUlr
Germany
Local time: 02:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Helen Genevier
14 mins
  -> Thank you, Helen.
agree  Stephanie Ezrol
4 hrs
neutral  airmailrpl: For this, the source text should be "How many times did you take your break through PAIN painkiller?
6 hrs
agree  Veronika McLaren: seems applicable here; a repetition of the word pain should not be necessary
7 hrs
agree  Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães: Exactly. Fentanyl is a classic example.
10 hrs
agree  Tania McConaghy
11 hrs
agree  Rachel Fell: often written as one word - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_pain
1 day 3 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
breakthrough painkiller
a major discovery..an innovative soloution..a major progress.. in a painkiller


Explanation:


Definitions of breakthrough on the Web:

* discovery: a productive insight
* making an important discovery
* a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
An advance through and past enemy lines (or vice versa); Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle; Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/breakthrough

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Note added at 3 hrs (2010-09-10 10:13:36 GMT)
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typo:
a major discovery..an innovative solution..a major progress.. in a painkiller

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 21:52
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães: In this context, the whole term is "break(-)through pain", not "break-through". "Breakthrough pain is pain that comes on suddenly for short periods of time and is not alleviated by the patients' normal pain suppression management." http://is.gd/f4SjT
7 hrs
  -> ??? sorry your are NOT making sense
disagree  Tania McConaghy: not in this context
8 hrs
  -> asker's query is "what does the word 'break-through' refer to?"
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Reference comments


8 mins peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: accès douloureux transitoires, pics douloureux

Reference information:
Discussion intéressante sur breakthrough pain

http://www.medecine.ups-tlse.fr/DCEM2/module6/soins_paliatif...

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Note added at 10 mins (2010-09-10 06:43:59 GMT)
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sorry! I took this to be an English to French question, but it may help anyway as I see French is one of your working languages :-)

Helen Genevier
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  MMUlr: yes :-)
8 mins
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4 hrs peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: Pain Relief & Breakthrough Pain

Reference information:
For people in chronic pain, sharp spikes of breakthrough pain can be a big problem. What causes it -- and how can you find pain relief? That's an important question for many patients, especially those with cancer.

"Breakthrough pain occurs when you're doing something that triggers extra pain, like getting up after knee surgery," explains Michael Ferrante, MD, director of the UCLA Pain Management Center. "Sometimes breakthrough pain just occurs, without any obvious trigger. In essence, it means the patient needs more medication to cover the chronic pain and another drug for the breakthrough pain."

Narcotics & Breakthrough Pain Relief
For those taking narcotics, breakthrough pain might be a sign that the body is developing tolerance to the narcotic, Ferrante says. "Tolerance means you need to take more of the drug over time to achieve the same pain relief."

When a patient develops a narcotic tolerance, the doctor can increase the dosage to provide the same pain relief -- but the risk of side effects gets higher with the higher dose, explains Salahadin Abdi, MD, PhD, chief of pain medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine.

"Instead of increasing the dosage of that narcotic, a good solution is to change to a different narcotic," Abdi tells WebMD. "You can then use a relatively small dose of the new narcotic to get the same effect. You can switch to yet another narcotic later on if you need to."


    Reference: http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/features/pain-relief-br...
Stephanie Ezrol
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
neutral  airmailrpl: For this, the source text should be "How many times did you take your break through PAIN painkiller?"
2 hrs
agree  Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães: There's absolutely no need to repeat "pain": http://www.google.com/search?&q="breakthrough+painkiller"
6 hrs
  -> Thanks !
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