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The Acute Care Opioid Table - For Emergency Providers

There are a hundred opioid tables out there,
The Acute Care Opioid ... Table - For Emergency ... Care Opioid Table ... #Pain #Dosing # ... #Table #Pharmacology
CERTA Opioid Alternatives

Opioid Alternatives for Abdominal Pain (traumatic, non-traumatic), Back Pain, Burns, Renal Colic, Dental Pain,
NOT mix NSAID drugs ... indicate a surgical emergency ... potential of some drugs ... #Alternatives #Opiate ... #Pharmacology #
Shock and Vasoactive Drugs 
1) Determine type and etiology of shock
 • Distributive: Sepsis, Anaphylaxis, Neurogenic
and Vasoactive Drugs ... Understand vasoactive drug ... shock #Vasoactive #Drugs ... inopressors #diagnosis ... management #comparison #table
Medications causing Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration: Diuretics
 • Altered intrarenal autoregulation: ACEIs / ARBs,
sphincter tone: • Opiates ... decongestants) • Any drug ... #Medications #Drugs ... #pharmacology # ... differential #diagnosis
Hypertension and Altered Mental Status (AMS) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Hypertension:
 • Hypertensive emergency
 • Hypertensive encephalopathy
- Differential Diagnosis ... • Hypertensive emergency ... renal crises Drug ... inhibitors Drug ... withdrawal • Opioid
CA-Bridge Buprenorphine Hospital Quick Start Algorithm - Management of acute opiate withdrawal 
 - Any prescriber
Management of acute ... opiate withdrawal ... If patient is stable ... co-exisiting chronic pain ... #Withdrawal #Emergency
Medications that Can Cause False Positives on Drug Tests

Urine drug screens (UDSs) are simple to use,
False Positives on Drug ... Tests Urine drug ... false positives on drug ... and opiates false ... False #positive #drug
Pancreatitis management checklist 
Evaluation to guide etiology & management 
 - RUQ ultrasound 
 - Calcium
potentially causative drugs ... Pain control - ... - Opioids may ... limit them as able ... Pancreatitis #Checklist #Diagnosis
Emergent Causes of Headache and Associated Risk Factors
Carbon monoxide poisoning
 - Breathing in enclosed or confined
Emergent Causes ... - History of pain ... or serotonergic drugs ... #differential #emergency ... #diagnosis
First Generation Anti-Psychotics: Mechanisms and Side Effects
Typical/Conventional Anti-Psychotics - Examples: Haloperidol, Chlorpromazine

ACh M1 antagonist - Block
brain • Weight Gain ... irreversible • Drug ... bradykinesia/akinesia • Acute ... #SideEffects #pharmacology ... #diagnosis #psychiatry