Roadmap to PHN Pain Management | Provider-to-Patient Materials

Patient Education Materials

These educational tools are designed to help you start a conversation with your patients about PHN pain. Use these
tools as a guide to gain knowledge and help facilitate a more robust patient dialogue regarding the treatment of after-shingles pain.

Wallboard

This resource provides point-of-reference during counseling sessions for patients with PHN pain. In addition, it serves as a "conversation starter" on the progression from chicken pox to shingles to PHN, and acts as a guide to help patients pinpoint and describe their pain.

Disease State Awareness Tool & Takeaway

For detailed explanation of the symptoms and risk factors associated with chicken pox, shingles, and PHN, download these unique resources, which can be used after a patient has been diagnosed with shingles or PHN. It also provides an easy-to-understand brochure that patients can take home and use as a reference.

Application and Usage Tool & Takeaway

An easy-to-use step-by-step teaching tool on how to properly apply, use, and then discard the LIDODERM® patch. It also provides PHN patients with a guide that they can refer to at home when applying the patch.

Additional Patient Education Materials

Help your patients learn the importance of tracking and understanding pain. These tools will help your patients talk to you to help find the right treatment that is best for his or her pain.

Pain Assessment Tool and Checklist (PATCh)

Patients can use this Pain Assessment Tool & Checklist to track their pain using the list of common descriptors, a pain scale, and the calendar that is provided.

Patient Brochure

This patient brochure includes helpful information about after-shingles pain, information about LIDODERM, and tips for talking about after-shingles pain with a healthcare professional.

Lidoderm Formulary Information for Managed Care Providers

Important Safety Information

LIDODERM is contraindicated in patients with a history of sensitivity to local anesthetics (amide type) or any product component.

Even a used LIDODERM patch contains a large amount of lidocaine (at least 665 mg). The potential exists for a small child or pet to suffer serious adverse effects from chewing or ingesting a new or used LIDODERM patch, although the risk with this formulation has not been evaluated. It is important for patients to store and dispose of LIDODERM out of reach of children, pets, and others.

Excessive dosing, such as applying LIDODERM to larger areas or for longer than the recommended wearing time, could result in increased absorption of lidocaine and high blood concentrations leading to serious adverse effects.

Avoid contact of LIDODERM with the eye. If contact occurs, immediately wash the eye with water or saline and protect it until sensation returns. Avoid the use of external heat sources as this has not been evaluated and may increase plasma lidocaine levels.

Patients with severe hepatic disease are at greater risk of developing toxic blood concentrations of lidocaine, because of their inability to metabolize lidocaine normally. LIDODERM should be used with caution in patients receiving Class I antiarrhythmic drugs (such as tocainide and mexiletine) since the toxic effects are additive and potentially synergistic. LIDODERM should also be used with caution in pregnant (including labor and delivery) or nursing mothers.

Allergic reactions, although rare, can occur.

During or immediately after LIDODERM treatment, the skin at the site of application may develop blisters, bruising, burning sensation, depigmentation, dermatitis, discoloration, edema, erythema, exfoliation, irritation, papules, petechia, pruritus, vesicles, or may be the locus of abnormal sensation. These reactions are generally mild and transient, resolving spontaneously within a few minutes to hours. Other reactions may include dizziness, headache and nausea.

When LIDODERM is used concomitantly with local anesthetic products, the amount absorbed from all formulations must be considered.

Immediately discard used patches or remaining unused portions of cut patches in household trash in a manner that prevents accidental application or ingestion by children, pets, or others.