What is the optimal dosing strategy for deploying IV acetaminophen and how should it be combined with IV or opioid therapy? What is the role of this approach in the ambulatory surgery unit?

What is the optimal dosing strategy for deploying IV acetaminophen and how should it be combined with IV or opioid therapy? What is the role of this approach in the ambulatory surgery unit?

From a practical perspective, what is the optimal dosing strategy for deploying IV acetaminophen and how should it be combined with IV or opioid therapy? What is the role of this approach in the ambulatory surgery unit? And in what types of surgery have you found this formulation ideal and why?


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Presenter

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