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).
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
Sponsor: ACP’s National Internal Medicine Day
Sponsor: Green Chef
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
