PMID: 9553213Apr 29, 1998Paper

Paraspinal opioids and pump systems

Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung und Qualitätssicherung
K Böhme, M Tryba

Abstract

The regional application of opioids close to the spinal cord by using pumps induces a pain reduction comparable to the systemic medication of the WHO analgesic ladder. However, this method does not reduce the side effects of these drugs, e.g. nausea, vomiting, dysfunctional bladder emptying, and obstipation. Problems and complications leading to revision surgery and system explantation, respectively, are of more severe importance. Pump explantation occurs in a frequency of 7.3% and revision surgery in a frequency of 6.2%. Catheters and port systems have to be revised in 15% of all cases. Therefore, the indication for this method has to be considered carefully and includes the following criteria: pain of somatic origin, exclusion of mental diseases and psychogenic causes of pain, causal therapy is exhausted, insufficient effects of peripheral analgesics and co-analgesics, oral or transdermal opioids are insufficient despite dosages resulting in side-effects, pain is sensible to opioids, regional application of opioids has been tested effective before implantation.

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