PainRx

Hey friends 👋🏻 First things first, I want to wish you a happy new year! Reflecting on what I do as a pain management pharmacist, a lot of the consults I deal with involve opioid management, especially doses that are considered “high.” I’m using quotation marks here not to be politically correct, but to acknowledge that we don’t really have a working definition of high or low dose when it comes to opioids. I say this because if I were to ask you, What dose would you consider lisinopril 5mg?...

Hey there 👋🏻 I named this newsletter The Life of a Pain Management Pharmacist earlier this year because: If you’re here to read about pain meds all the time, it gets dull My life isn’t just about pain meds. There are perspectives and values I want to share too I’ve used life stories before to spin on a clinical idea, but I rarely just write about my life. So here I am. I’m going to write about the vacation I took over the last few weeks. Customer Service in Japan Is World Class Whenever I...

Happy Early Thanksgiving 🦃   Every now and then I would recommend using a different pain scale than a numeric pain score if patients are non verbal or having cognitive impairment.   The scale is called Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia Scale (PAIN-AD).   It makes sense to use it if we look at some of the grading of this scale   Breathing Negative vocalization Facial expression Body language Consolability   All the grading are not self reported, so it relies less on the ability of an...