PPT-Calculating and Using Morphine Equivalent Doses of Opioids

Teresa Hudson PharmD PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry UAMS COM Department of Psychiatry Wednesday June 20 2018 ARIMPACT   TEXT 5014060076   Event ID 2507223985 Todays Objectives. Opioid (Narcotic) Analgesics, Opioid Antagonists, and Nonopioid Centrally Acting Analgesics. Analgesics and Opioids. Analgesics are drugs that relieve pain without causing loss of consciousness.. Opioids are the most effective pain relievers available.. Presentation provided by. Meldon. . Kahan. , MD. Family & Community Medicine. University of . T. oronto. CSAM-SCAM Fundamentals. Conflict of interest statement. Dr. Christy Sutherland . -. none. UNIQUE FEATURES OF INDIVIDUAL AGENTS . Dr. S. . Parthasarathy. . MD., DA., DNB, MD (. Acu. ), Dip. . Diab. . DCA, Dip. Software statistics- . PhD ( physiology), IDRA . Just a simple notes but not a high profile lecture by a bearded scientist . . Melissa B. Weimer, DO, MCR. Disclosures. Dr. Weimer is a consultant for . INFORMed. , IMPACT education, and the American Association of Addiction Psychiatry.. Dr. Weimer is the medical director of CODA, Inc. . in . Palliative Care. Professor and Section Head, Palliative Medicine, University of Manitoba. Medical Director, . Adult and Pediatric Palliative Care, WRHA. Clinical Lead, Canadian Virtual Hospice. Mike Harlos MD, . M.Ed. Pharmacokinetics. Speed of onset is faster with increased lipid solubility. Morphine:. Relatively low lipid solubility. Only 10-20% un-ionized at physiologic pH so doesn’t diffuse into tissues quickly. Objectives. Brief history of Opioids. Molecular structure. Physiologic effects. Intoxication, Treatment, Complications. Intro. History of Opium. To understand opioids, we must start at the source - opium.. Opiates bind to receptors in the brain, which means that they kill pain by preventing the transmission of pain impulses in the brain, rather than at the source.. Opiates are derived from opium, which is found in poppy seeds. . Analgesics and Opioids. Analgesics are drugs that relieve pain without causing loss of consciousness.. Opioids are the . most effective pain relievers available.. Terminology. Opioid. . A general term defined as any drug, natural or synthetic, that . Department . of Health and Human Services . Director’s Office. Jeffery Stroup, . Econometrician. Richard Whitley, MS. Director. Brian . Sandoval. Governor. Data . D. ata was gathered from the Medicaid data warehouse.. Anthony J. Caprio, MD. Assistant Professor of Medicine. Division of Geriatric Medicine. Center for Aging and Health. Palliative Care Consultation Service. University of North Carolina at Chapel. Objectives. an . unpleasant sensation that can be either acute or chronic and is a consequence of complex neurochemical processes in the peripheral and central nervous systems (. CNS. Alleviation . of pain depends on the . Dr. S. . Parthasarathy. . MD., DA., DNB, MD (. Acu. ), Dip. . Diab. . DCA, Dip. Software statistics- . PhD ( physiology), IDRA . Just a simple notes but not a high profile lecture by a bearded scientist . Narcotic. analgesics). Pain . is . . an unpleasant sensation that can be either . acute or chronic . and is a consequence of . neurochemical . processes in the peripheral . and . (CNS). . treatment .