Demystifying Opioid Conversion Calculations

Demystifying Opioid Conversion Calculations: A Guide for Effective Dosing (McPherson, Demystifying Opioid Conversion Calculations) [Paperback]

Author: Mary Lynn McPherson | Language: English | ISBN: 1585281980 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Demystifying Opioid Conversion Calculations: A Guide for Effective Dosing
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Have you ever wondered if you calculated your patient’s dosage correctly?

Against a backdrop of the growing scrutiny of appropriate dosages, this textbook takes a fresh, new approach to helping health professionals strengthen care to and possibly save the lives of patients living with pain. This easy-to-understand and often humorous book is the most comprehensive to-date on opioid calculations for pain management and palliative care. It carefully walks clinicians through a five-step process for performing opioid conversion calculations in the real-world situations they often see. The book has case examples, simple charts and tables, and practice problems throughout on topics such as:

·         difficult conversions for methadone, fentanyl, PCA, and neuraxial opioid therapy

·         conversions between routes and dosage formulations of the same opioids and different opioids

·         titrating opioid dosages up and down to include dosage change and timing

·         calculating doses for rescue opioid therapy

 

Written by pain management expert Dr. Mary Lynn McPherson, the book gives helpful tips that practitioners should incorporate into their practices. It is a must for clinicians at all levels: hospice and palliative care physicians, physician’s assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists. Clinicians will come away with more confidence in doing the calculations, and higher service levels from the improvement in care.

 

 

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• Series: McPherson, Demystifying Opioid Conversion Calculations
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: ASHP; 1 edition (August 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585281980
• ISBN-13: 978-1585281985
• Product Dimensions: 0.4 x 7 x 9.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #157,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #36 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Clinical > Pain Medicine
  • #56 in Books > Medical Books > Pharmacology > Pain Medicine

I have found this book a must have in my hospice work. I am certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. I refer to this book constantly. I am not certain how to say the following. However, after I read it once, I found myself wanting to review a lot of the referrences the author refers to. My conclusion? Not only is this book very thoughtfully written, it is impecably referrenced, well edited, and well, truly a fine work. I have used many of the author's excellent examples in discussions with my hospice team.

By Joseph H. Roosth

Dr. McPherson's book is an essential, practical tool for anyone who cares for patients who take opioids, whether for acute or chronic pain. After reading this book, you will feel confident that you can start any patient on the right opioid at the right dose. You will even feel more comfortable about routinely managing methadone!

This book is comprehensive but simple and very easy to follow. The content is very well-researched, and information is presented in an unambiguous way. The best part about the book, in my opinion, is the use of many demonstrative cases that help you work through practical opioid prescribing problems that are similar to those you are likely to encounter in your practice.

This book is highly useful for prescribers of opioids, including physicians, advanced practice nurses. It is ALSO very highly useful for pharmacists and for nurses. I would highly recommend it for trainees in all of these disciplines.

Oh, and by the way, it's a pretty funny, entertaining book too. It seems like a pretty impossible thing, but Dr. McPherson has done it: she made opioid dosing an interesting topic.

By Holly M. Holmes

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