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Clinical Opioid Withdrawal Score (COWS)
 - Resting Pulse Rate: Record beats per minute after patient is
Score (COWS) - ... Observation during assessment ... attributed to opiate ... withdrawal is scored ... Observation during assessment
Clinical Opioid Withdrawal Score (COWS)

Resting Pulse Rate: Record beats per minute after patient is sitting or
Observation during assessment ... withdrawal is scored ... Observation during assessment ... or twice during assessment ... more times during assessment
Quick Guide: Methadone Starts in the Hospital
Day 1: max daily dose 40 mg methadone
First dose
• Check
Ramsay sedation score ... Methadone #Initiation #Algorithm ... #Treatment #Management ... #Addiction #Opiate ... #Prescribing #Inpatient
Admitting in the ICU - Checklist
VITALS: If bad, stop and go see the patient immediately; you
and go see the patient ... esp in work-up/management ... miss MDR bugs) MEDS ... PMH; consider withdrawal ... own objective assessment
Quick Guide: Buprenorphine Initiation Algorithm
Adjunctive meds: 
The following can be prescribed PRN for symptoms of withdrawal
Adjunctive meds ... for symptoms of withdrawal ... #Treatment #Management ... #Addiction #Opiate ... #Prescribing #Inpatient
A visual representation of rehabilitation: Scope, Context, Structure, Process, and Outcome. 
Assessment:
 • Collection and interpretation
rehabilitation: Scope ... Assessment: • ... treatments, to alter ... discharge with self-management ... rehabilitation #pmr #scope