10.11.2021 - By The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
Confidently manage acute pain in the hospital! In this episode listeners will learn how to develop a multimodal analgesia plan for acute pain in the hospital, as well as how to safely initiate and discharge a patient on opioids. We’re joined by Dr. Melissa Weimer @DrMelissaWeimer (Yale School of Medicine).
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Credits
Producer and Writer: Carolyn Chan, MD
Script: Carolyn Chan, MD, Avi O’Glasser, MD
Cover Art and Infographic: Edison Jyang
Hosts: Matthew Watto MD, FACP; Carolyn Chan, MD
Reviewer: Emi Okamoto, MD
Editor: Matthew Watto MD (written materials); Clair Morgan of nodderly.com
Guest: Melissa Weimer DO
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Show Segments
01:39 Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
03:20 Guest one-liner, Picks of the Week
09:18 Case from Kashlak; Definitions
11:00 Assessing Acute Pain
12:12 Types of Pain
15:08 Initiating Opioids
22:32 Counseling on Opioid Exit Strategy
25:26 Opioid Dependence vs. Opioid Use Disorder
29:50 Post-Op Pain Management
31:00 Other cool stuff
37:00 PCA
41:00 Opioid Taper
46:50 Acute Pain and Opioid Use Disorder
58:00 Methadone Titration
1:04:00 Outro