Opioids prescribed after trauma and acute care surgery is among the most common first exposures to opioids. In this hour we talk with Dr. Hee Soo Jung about the current data on best practices for prescribing to these patients, best opioid alternatives, and strategies for minimizing the chance of opioid dependence or diversion.
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Everyone knows that kids are not just little adults, and that’s as true in pain management after surgery or trauma as anywhere else. In this hour of SPOTS, we talk with pediatric anesthesiologists Dr. Tim Casias and Dr. Jared Hylton about the pediatric specific prescribing of opioids and good opioid alternatives.
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In this inaugural episode of the SPOTS series, we talk with Dr. Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Assistant Professor and Medical Director of UW Pain Services, about the state of the opioid epidemic nationally and in our home state of Wisconsin.
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