Avaliação do custo do medicamento para tratamento ambulatorial de pacientes com dor crônica

Abstract

This study showed that the cost of the drugs does not differ significantly taking into consideration the type of pain.

Prevalência de dor crônica em uma Unidade Básica de Saúde de cidade de médio porte

“…In addition to generating physical and emotional stress, it is the reason for high economic and social expenditures for society. Data from the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), from 2007, show that 20% of benefits granted due to medical leave were aimed at chronic pain patients 18 A study carried out from January 2004 to January 2008 has shown that the mean cost for a chronic pain patient is R$ 127.00 per month (varying between R$ 5.00 and R$ 780.00) being these amounts spent only with medications 19 . A study was carried out in the city of Sorocaba with chronic pain patients treated by the three health care levels and has observed a major chronic pain demand in basic health care units 20 .…”

Tratamento da dor neuropática crônica pós-trauma com o uso do bloqueio periférico: relato de caso

“…The antidepressant used with our patient has shown to be a good adjuvant. It is important to stress that chronic neuropathic pain management should be individualized, multimode and based on parameters such as current disease history, preexisting diseases, physical evaluations, lab exams, complementary exams, cost of drugs as well as their side effects, contraindica-tions and follow up of responses to previously used methods 5 . Given the rich symptomatology of the case and neuropathic pain pathophysiology complexity, physicians should not give up when facing management with modest results, but rather should persist in the search for pain relief to provide better quality of life to patients 6 .…”

Conhecimento dos acadêmicos e profissionais da fisioterapia sobre dor: uma revisão sistemática

“…Portanto, com base no raciocínio apresentado e no fato de que o fenômeno em questão é de elevada complexidade, com impactos biopsicossociais desastrosos, além do elevado custo financeiro aos cofres públicos e privados, fica evidente a necessidade real e atual de que os acadêmicos e profissionais de saúde, incluindo a fisioterapia, estejam adequadamente habilitados para realizar ações de prevenção, avaliação e tratamento da dor em todas as esferas de atenção à saúde [8][9][10] . Vale ressaltar que mais da metade dos pacientes que procuram o serviço de fisioterapia apresentam como sintoma principal a dor, a qual tem impactos diretos sobre a funcionalidade durante as atividades de vida diária, laborais e qualidade de vida [10][11][12] .…”