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#366 Opioid Use Disorder and Acute Pain in the Hospitalized Patient

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Treating Pain Treating With Short Acting Opioids

Everybody deserves to have their pain treated while they're admitted in the hospital so again ideally it'd be great to have an individual on methadone or buprenorphine. It's totally reasonable to use full agonists generally in my practice I usually schedule short acting sort of again ramp up pretty quickly and then adjust and go from there. Sometimes depending on how long someone's there I may use a long acting dose of oxycontin at night just because I think that short acting is every three four hours but when people sleep it can be a little bit more challenging during that time. The door is enclosed just because when they're feeling like trash and the ED the first time they see you they

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