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#299 Acute Pain Management for the Hospitalist

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Ivy

Ivy as needed opioids can run out too quickly, even though they're dosed every three hours. You could try switching to subcutaneous to see if it might last a little longer but it's still going to be very short acting. If we give the patient the pc a, assuming he's cognitively intact and there's not other high risk feature such as bad sleep, apnia or morbid obesity,. A older age greater than 65 would be a rist factor. But assuming all those things are saf for this patient, he may feel that having control of his analges is actually better for him.

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