Course: Opioids and Surgery

Coordinating all the different aspects of opioid stewardship can be challenging. The scope ranges from the pre-assessment clinic, to patient-specific anaesthetic techniques, to advice and support on discharge home after …

In this article, Dr Nicholas Levy, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Acute Pain at West Suffolk Hospital, and Dr Anna Simpson, Consultant in Anaesthesia at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, outline …

Welcome back to our third and final week of Opioids and Surgery! As you have learned in the previous two weeks, opioids remain a crucial component of surgical pain management, …

In this step, Dr Thomas Reed, Core Anaesthesia Trainee at Kings College Hospital London, and Dr Dermot McGuckin, Specialty Registrar in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at UCLH, discuss how the …

You may have been in a situation in which a patient continues to experience severe pain postoperatively in spite of large doses of morphine being administered. Or perhaps you’ve heard …

In this step, Dr Rachel Coathup, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine at UCLH, and Dr Harriet Scott, Specialty Registrar in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at Barts Health, discuss …

We’ve all heard of opioids. Many of us have prescribed them and most of us have met patients using them. But what are they and why does this matter to …

In Week 1, Dr Jane Quinlan introduced the concept of PPOU and looked at the case of a patient who found it difficult to stop taking opioids after an elective …

Well done on getting through an intensive week! Hopefully you now have a better understanding of the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of different opioid drugs that determine how they exert …

Welcome back to the second week of Opioids and Surgery! As discussed last week, opioid use around the time of surgery is often essential to the provision of pain relief …

In this step, Dr Jane Quinlan, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals Trust and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford, explores the concept …

In this step, Dr Fausto Morell-Ducos, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at University College London Hospitals, discusses how differences in prescribing practices translate into the observed differences in prescribed …

In this step, Dr Fausto Morell-Ducos, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at University College London Hospitals, explains how the well-intentioned but ultimately misguided application of palliative care principles to …

In this step, Professor Kevin Fong OBE, Consultant in Aanaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at UCLH and Professor of Public Engagement and Innovation at University College London, comments on the clinical …

In this step, Dr Fausto Morell-Ducos, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at University College London Hospitals, outlines how the use of opioids in pain management around the time of …