You are admitting a patient to your rehabilitation unit who has a diagnosis of persistent, severe pain. According to the patient's history, the patient's pain has not responded to conventional approaches to pain management
What treatment would you expect might be tried with this patient?
A) Intravenous analgesia
B) Long-term intrathecal or epidural catheter
C) Oral analgesia
D) Intramuscular analgesia
Ans: B
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For patients who have persistent, severe pain that fails to respond to other treatments or who obtain pain relief only with the risk of serious side effects, medication administered by a long-term intrathecal or epidural catheter may be effective. The other listed means of pain control would already have been tried in a patient with persistent severe pain that has not responded to previous treatment.
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