IBCC chapter: Buprenorphine & opioid use disorder

In critical care, we've been treating patients with opioid use disorder for a long time.  If they're intubated for intoxication, we extubate them and send them home.  If they're septic with endocarditis, we treat their sepsis.  Unfortunately, this isn't enough.  We're treating the complications of opioid use disorder, without addressing the underlying problem. Recently, medication-assisted […]

EMCrit Project by Josh Farkas.

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