Search results for "Opioids"
Where's your niche?
Academic hospitalists explain how to build a fulfilling career by focusing on a small, specific area of education or research.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/17/wheres-your-niche.htm
17 Apr 2024
Encouraging use of subcutaneous opioids reduces IV opioid prescribing, pilot study finds
One general medicine unit educated prescribers and nursing staff about subcutaneous opioid administration and successfully adopted a standard of practice preferring oral and subcutaneous opioids over IVs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/23/2.htm
23 May 2018
Medical center reports recent sharp rise in group A strep bacteremia related to injection drug use
The University of Vermont Medical Center saw three cases of invasive group A Streptococcus in 2020, four in 2021, 19 in 2022, and 45 during the first 10 months of 2023, and many of these infections could be tied to exposure to xylazine in people who inject drugs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/01/medical-center-reports-recent-sharp-rise-in-group-a-strep-bacteremia-related-to-injection-drug-use.htm
1 May 2024
Opioids were commonly used for acute gout treatment, ED study finds
More than 28% of patients with acute gout who were discharged from an ED received an opioid prescription, even though there are other treatment options.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/17/3.htm
17 Jul 2019
January 2020
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/
Non-opioid combo offers similar pain control to 3 opioid combos in ED after 2 hours
Patients with moderate to severe acute extremity pain were randomly assigned to receive ibuprofen and acetaminophen, oxycodone and acetaminophen, hydrocodone and acetaminophen, or codeine and acetaminophen.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/11/15/3.htm
15 Nov 2017
May 18, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/05/18/
Tramadol, gabapentinoids associated with problematic opioid use in hospitalized patients, studies find
One study found that postop tramadol is associated with slightly higher risk of later opioid use versus other short-acting opioids, while another found that gabapentinoids are commonly given off-label in the hospital, sometimes with opioids and benzodiazepines.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/05/22/2.htm
22 May 2019
October 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/
Anticonvulsant may increase mortality risk when coprescribed with opioids
All doses of pregabalin were associated with increased odds of opioid-related death compared to taking opioids without pregabalin, but the risk was higher with pregabalin doses above 300 mg/d.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/08/22/4.htm
22 Aug 2018