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Managing Opioids in the Perioperative Period
Perioperative Medicine Podcast Series
English - May 20, 2019 05:00 - 14 minutes - 14 Bytes - ★★★ - 4 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The use of slow release opioids in the perioperative period has been associated with respiratory depression, increased chronic post-surgical pain and other serious adverse events. Pain specialist Dr Kerry McLaughlin discusses ways to minimise these risks including the role of \'safer opioids\' and perioperative opioid sparing techniques.