Ep #019: How Do I Treat Pain in a Patient With Opioid Addiction?
Your surgical colleague asks if your patient who is taking buprenorphine for his opioid use disorder should stop before hip replacement surgery and re...
SCOPE of Pain: Safe & Competent Opioid Prescribing Education
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Helpful discussions of challenges commonly faced by health care clinicians when prescribing opioids. Hosted by Dr. Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, Director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education program (SCOPE of Pain) at Boston University's School of Medicine.
Ep #018: I Don't Want Addicted Patients in Our Practice
How do you educate your medical director about the importance and benefits of offering medications, such as buprenorphine for the treatment of patient...
Ep #017: Opioids are Not Effective for Treating Chronic Pain
Your medical director states all patients on chronic opioid therapy should be tapered, as there's no evidence opioids are effective for chronic pain. ...
Ep #016: My Wife Overdosed on Her Fentanyl Patch!
How will you manage a patient's chronic pain and likely opioid use disorder after her opioid overdose?
Ep #015: I Need Opioids for My Sprained Ankle
A patient with a twisted ankle requests a prescription for oxycodone. How will you respond to his request for opioids for his acute pain?
Ep #014: Will Post-Surgery Opioids Make Me Addicted?
A patient is afraid receiving postoperative opioid analgesics will result in opioid addiction. How will you educate this patient about the risks and b...
Ep #013: The CDC Guideline Requires All Patients to be Tapered
Your medical director states that over the next six months, all patients on opioids must be decreased below 90 morphine milligram equivalents as per t...
Ep #012: The Anonymous Call – Your Patient Is Selling His Opioids
You get an anonymous phone call stating your patient, who you've been treating with chronic opioids for chronic pain for the past six months, is selli...
Ep #011: The Patient Overly-Focused on Opioid Therapy
A patient treated with long-term high-dose opioids for chronic pain insists on having her opioid dose increased to improve her pain management and ref...
Ep #010: The Unsanctioned Opioid Dose Escalation
Your patient, who you've been treating with chronic opioids for chronic painful diabetic neuropathy for the past 11 months calls the on-call service a...