Practice guidelines for neuropathic pain management
Guevara-López, U.; Covarrubias-Gómez, A.; García-Ramos, G.; Hernández-Jiménez, S.
Revista de investigacion clinica; organo del Hospital de Enfermedades de la Nutricion 58(2): 126-138
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0034-8376 PMID: 16827265 Document Number: 598322
Neuropathic pain (NP) is a heterogeneous entity with wide diversity of symptoms. Despite the controversies regarding its definition and classification, which difficult its epidemiology, it has been estimated that 4 million people, in USA develop NP. A task force was created to generate a series of recommendations which facilitate the decision making and therapeutic approach of this kind of pain. A search of medical literature was made in different electronic data bases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, COCHRANE); after this search we conducted three work-sessions and evaluated the evidence regarding the diagnosis and treatment of pain in painful diabetic poli-neuropathy, post-herpetic neuralgia, and trigeminal neuralgia were evaluated. We found 329 documents for further analysis, and with the aid of the literature results we generate this practice guidelines.