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In this video, Leah Coufal’s mother, Lenore Alexander, recounts the tragic story of her 12-year-old daughter’s preventable death in hospital in December 2002. Leah died from opioid-induced respiratory depression due to a lack of continuous postoperative monitoring which could have saved her life. Lenore now campaigns for the legal requirement to monitor patients on opioids after surgery.- Posted
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In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published prescribing guidelines for opioids. Though intended to encourage best practices in opioid prescribing, these guidelines fueled providers’ fears of opioids and led to many clinicians abandoning patients who relied on opioids for pain relief. In this article, Antje M. Barreveld reflects on the harms he may have caused by underprescribing these drugs, not overprescribing them.- Posted
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In this article in the Pharmaceutical Journal, Carolyn Wickware asks if liquid morphine should be reclassified. She cites research that Oramorph or oral morphine sulphate solution was directly linked to the cause of death in 13 reports since 2013.- Posted
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In this blog Patient Safety Learning considers several key patient safety issues highlighted in a recent investigation by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) into unintentional overdose of morphine sulfate oral solution. We argue that in some areas, further action is required to prevent incidents of avoidable harm recurring.- Posted
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Each year, up to 100 million people in the US experience acute or chronic pain, mainly because of short-term illnesses, injury and medical procedures. It is therefore important that patients are offered effective treatment options to reduce symptoms and improve function. Nonopioid management is the preferred option, but there are circumstances for which short-term opioid therapy is appropriate and beneficial. Finding the balance between these approaches is an ongoing problem in the management of acute noncancer pain. This cluster randomised clinical trial featured in JAMA Health Forum, aimed to assess whether clinician-targeted interventions prevent unsafe opioid prescribing in ambulatory patients with acute noncancer pain. The authors found that the use of comparison emails decreased the proportion of patients with acute pain who had never taken opioids receiving an opioid prescription. The emails also reduced the number of patients who progressed to treatment with long-term opioid therapy or were exposed to concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine therapy. They concluded that healthcare systems could add clinician-targeted nudges to other initiatives as an efficient, scalable approach to further decrease potentially unsafe opioid prescribing.- Posted
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