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Extubation Readiness with Alyssa Stoner and Gina Patel, Part 1

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How to Wean an Opioid

It's really important in my opinion to be aggressive about weaning those drugs and kind of initiating at the right time. And so keep it simple and just talk about an opioid. You are like speaking to my heart. So that is like one of my biggest pet peeves as you start these entromedications and then they don't get weaned. But methadone has a fairly long half-life and so doesn't need to be dosed at Q6, but it allows for you to get to your steady state faster if you do that for the first 24 hours.

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