Are we ready to manage an opioid epidemic in the intensive care unit?

The current opioid epidemic has had a massive impact on the critical care sector. This is due to an increase in the number of acute opioid overdose-related admissions and the number of opioid-dependent and opioid-tolerant patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). This review discusses the ch...

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Autores principales: Das, Akshaya K., Sharma, Ankur, Kothari, Nikhil, Goyal, Shilpa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10156511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36062420
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ait.2022.118881
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description The current opioid epidemic has had a massive impact on the critical care sector. This is due to an increase in the number of acute opioid overdose-related admissions and the number of opioid-dependent and opioid-tolerant patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). This review discusses the challenges that intensive care physicians face when caring for patients suffering from opioid-related disorders and analyses existing solutions. Preference for non-opioid analgesics, treatment of acute pain in the ICUs to avoid chronic pain syndrome, and education of patients and caregivers are critical to preventing this pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-101565112023-05-17 Are we ready to manage an opioid epidemic in the intensive care unit? Das, Akshaya K. Sharma, Ankur Kothari, Nikhil Goyal, Shilpa Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther Review Articles The current opioid epidemic has had a massive impact on the critical care sector. This is due to an increase in the number of acute opioid overdose-related admissions and the number of opioid-dependent and opioid-tolerant patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). This review discusses the challenges that intensive care physicians face when caring for patients suffering from opioid-related disorders and analyses existing solutions. Preference for non-opioid analgesics, treatment of acute pain in the ICUs to avoid chronic pain syndrome, and education of patients and caregivers are critical to preventing this pandemic. Termedia Publishing House 2022-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10156511/ /pubmed/36062420 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ait.2022.118881 Text en Copyright © Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an Open Access journal, all articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) ), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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