Can you compare and contrast the efficacy and safety of IV acetaminophen with the other IV non-opioid agents that are sometimes used in conjunction with IV opioids?

Can you compare and contrast the efficacy and safety of IV acetaminophen with the other IV non-opioid agents that are sometimes used in conjunction with IV opioids?

Can you compare and contrast the efficacy and, especially, the safety of IV acetaminophen with the other IV non-opioid agents that are sometimes used in conjunction with IV opioids? Why do you consider acetaminophen the “backbone” of multimodal analgesia?


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Jeff Gadsden, MD

Jeff Gadsden, MD

Associate Professor
Duke University School of Medicine
Chief, Division of Orthopaedic, Plastic and Regional Anesthesiology
Duke University Medical Center
Chapel Hill, North Carolina