If you have a surgical patient who is on both IV acetaminophen and an IV opioid and the patient becomes intolerant to the opioid, can you continue the IV acetaminophen alone as monotherapy?

Name: If you have a surgical patient who is on both IV acetaminophen and an IV opioid and the patient becomes intolerant to the opioid, can you continue the IV acetaminophen alone as monotherapy?
Uploaded: 2017-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
Description: If you have a surgical patient who is on both IV acetaminophen and an IV opioid and the patient becomes intolerant to the opioid, can you continue the IV acetaminophen alone as monotherapy and/or what other non-opioid might you add to achieve synergies?

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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

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