Calderón-Vidal M, Moisen-Moreno C, Castorena-Arellano GA

Language: Spanish
References: 9
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ABSTRACT

22-year-old female who developed a single episode of apnea and desaturation approximately 10-12 hours after her ankle surgery, where she received a single dose of intrathecal morphine as an option for pain management. In many hospitals, there are no protocols that dictate the security measures for every patient receiving opioids or other analgesic infusions such as IV lidocaine or ketamine in hospital wards, which might jeopardize the safety of our patients with major or minor adverse events. Although the spread of acute pain clinics has been poor in recent years, the increase in diverse techniques for acute pain management continues to grow and is implemented without creating a safety net for those patients. The results of phase 2 of the Pain Out project showed that in our hospital, the use of opioids and infusions is an everyday routine. As anesthesiologists, we need to propose a safety protocol for delivering those patients to the wards that are under the supervision of non-anesthesiologists most of the time.

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