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Sebastiano Mercadante

Sebastiano Mercadante

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81
Citations
26107
World Ranking
16560
National Ranking
661

Overview

Sebastiano Mercadante is affiliated with La Maddalena Cancer Center in Italy. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with significant contributions to anesthesiology and pain medicine, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, surgery, and physiology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Anesthesia and Pain Management
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life

Frequent co-authors in Mercadante's body of work include:

  • Alessandra Casuccio
  • Alessio Lo Cascio
  • Claudio Adile
  • Patrizia Ferrera
  • Yasmine Grassi

Publications by Sebastiano Mercadante have appeared frequently in the following venues:

  • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
  • Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
  • Supportive Care in Cancer
  • Cancers
  • Journal of Palliative Medicine

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Mercadante include:

  • "Use of Opioids for Adults With Pain From Cancer or Cancer Treatment: ASCO Guideline," 2022, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • "Revised European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) recommended framework on palliative sedation: An international Delphi study," 2024, Palliative Medicine
  • "Palliative Care in the Time of COVID-19," 2020, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
  • "Careful Breakthrough Cancer Pain Treatment through Rapid-Onset Transmucosal Fentanyl Improves the Quality of Life in Cancer Patients: Results from the BEST Multicenter Study," 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • "Review of European Guidelines on Palliative Sedation: A Foundation for the Updating of the European Association for Palliative Care Framework," 2022, Journal of Palliative Medicine

Best Publications

  • Use of Opioid Analgesics in the Treatment of Cancer Pain: Evidence-Based Recommendations From the EAPC

    Augusto Caraceni;Geoffrey Hanks;Stein Kaasa;Michael I Bennett

  • Morphine and alternative opioids in cancer pain : the EAPC recommendations

    G W Hanks;F de Conno;N Cherny;M Hanna

  • Strategies to Manage the Adverse Effects of Oral Morphine: An Evidence-Based Report

    Nathan Cherny;Carla Ripamonti;Jose Pereira;Carol Davis

  • Episodic (Breakthrough) Pain Consensus Conference of an Expert Working Group of the European Association for Palliative Care

    Sebastiano Mercadante;Lukas Radbruch;Augusto Caraceni;Nathan Cherny

  • Current knowledge of buprenorphine and its unique pharmacological profile.

    Joseph Pergolizzi;Anna Maria Aloisi;Albert Dahan;Joerg Filitz

  • Opioid switching: A systematic and critical review

    Sebastiano Mercadante;Eduardo Bruera

  • Opioid-Induced Tolerance and Hyperalgesia

    Sebastiano Mercadante;Edoardo Arcuri;Angela Santoni

  • Problems of long-term spinal opioid treatment in advanced cancer patients

    Sebastiano Mercadante

  • A comparison of intranasal fentanyl spray with oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate for the treatment of breakthrough cancer pain: an open-label, randomised, crossover trial.

    S. Mercadante;L. Radbruch;A. Davies;P. Poulain

  • Palliative care in intensive care units: why, where, what, who, when, how

    Sebastiano Mercadante;Cesare Gregoretti;Andrea Cortegiani

  • Morphine in cancer pain: Modes of administration

    G. W. Hanks;F. De Conno;C. Ripamonti;V. Ventafridda

  • Opioids and renal function

    Sebastiano Mercadante;Edoardo Arcuri

  • Predictive factors in advanced cancer pain treated only by analgesics.

    Sebastiano Mercadante;Salvatore Maddaloni;Salvina Roccella;Leonardo Salvaggio

  • Rapid Switching From Morphine to Methadone in Cancer Patients With Poor Response to Morphine

    Sebastiano Mercadante;Alessandra Casuccio;Luciano Calderone

  • Opioid poorly-responsive cancer pain. Part 1: clinical considerations.

    Sebastiano Mercadante;Russell K. Portenoy

  • World Health Organization guidelines for cancer pain: a reappraisal

    S. Mercadante;F. Fulfaro

  • Prevalence of oral mucositis, dry mouth, and dysphagia in advanced cancer patients

    Sebastiano Mercadante;Federica Aielli;Claudio Adile;Patrizia Ferrera

  • Octreotide in relieving gastrointestinal symptoms due to bowel obstruction.

    Sebastiano Mercadante;Elio Spoldi;Augusto Caraceni;Salvatore Maddaloni

  • Long-term ketamine subcutaneous continuous infusion in neuropathic cancer pain

    Sebastiano Mercadante;Franco Lodi;Monica Sapio;Marina Calligara

  • Report of the Clinical Protocol Committee: Development of Randomized Trials for Malignant Bowel Obstruction

    Thomas Anthony;Todd Baron;Sebastiano Mercadante;Sylvan Green

Frequent Co-Authors

Lukas Radbruch
Lukas Radbruch University Hospital Bonn
Stein Kaasa
Stein Kaasa Oslo University Hospital
Henry J McQuay
Henry J McQuay University of Oxford
Russell K. Portenoy
Russell K. Portenoy Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Roberto Labianca
Roberto Labianca Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Eduardo Bruera
Eduardo Bruera The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Albert Dahan
Albert Dahan Leiden University Medical Center
Giuseppe Tonini
Giuseppe Tonini Università Campus Bio-Medico
Paola Sacerdote
Paola Sacerdote University of Milan
Anna Maria Aloisi
Anna Maria Aloisi University of Siena

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