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PCA - Should I Use IV or IV?
I will say it's okay to do both. We have had patients right with complex wound dressings who need a dose of IV medications to really help them in those situations. So we're addressing their opioid cravings with the buprenorphine. That also is doing a little work for the pain if we give it in the split dosing. And then we're using a full agonist opioid on top of that, something that's hydromorphone, hydromorphones, fentanyl that have maybe a little more higher affinity. Okay. Great. I've heard that that might be something that some people are using as well for like if he's going for a thoracic