Proper Opioid Dosage
How much opioid pain medication do you need if you’ve had an operation or an injury? It might surprise you to hear that we don’t really know.
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It’s Not Worth the Risk: Codeine and Tramadol
During our recent research on opioid prescribing patterns for pediatric patients we discovered that thousands of children every year are still being prescribing codeine and tramadol, despite FDA black box warnings. This video describes the reasons why these medications are not appropriate for children and what viable alternatives are.
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SPOTS Session 4: Opioid Prescribing for Patients with Chronic Opioid Use Disorder
One of the most difficult issues around prescribing opioids after surgery or trauma is knowing how to manage prescriptions for patients with a pre-existing chronic opioid use disorder. In this hour with opioid use disorder specialists Dr. Randy Brown and Dr. Elise Wessol, we explore the changes that chronic opioid use disorder — and treatment for it — have on patients’ pain.
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SPOTS Session 7: Opioid Prescribing by Primary Care Providers for Patients after Surgery or Trauma
Primary care providers are responsible for much of a patient’s pain management after injury and trauma, both acutely and for patients who go on to develop chronic pain. Family practice physician and opioid specialist Alison Miller, MD describes best practices for opioid prescribing by PCP’s, and how to manage chronic pain needs in post-surgical and post-injury patients.
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SPOTS Session 6: Prescription Opioids in the Pre-Hospital Setting
Pre-hospital providers are often the first people to meet a patient about to have their first exposure to opioids, and sometimes tragically, the last to meet a patient with an opioid use disorder. In this hour, we speak with Emergency Medicien physician and EMS medical director Mike Lohmeier, MD about the role that pre-hospital providers play in the opioid epidemic.
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SPOTS Session 3: Opioid Prescribing for Surgery and Trauma in the Emergency Department
Opioid prescribing in the Emergency Department is suprisingly common — or at least we were surprised by the data presented in this hour with Emergency Medicine physicians Mike Repplinger and Ben Schnapp. During this session we talk about best practices in prescribing opioids for trauma in the Emergency Department, non-opioid alternatives, and how to manage chronic opioid use and opioid use disorder in the ED setting.
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