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Chronic Pain Management With High Dose Opioid Medication, Joshua Cohen
Chronic Pain Management With High Dose Opioid Medication, Joshua Cohen
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Chronic pain management with non-abuse deterrent high dose opioids is a necessary but dangerous practice. This project addressed physician opinions about this sensitive issue and audited patient records to assess documentation compliance with VT rules. The goal is to standardize communication and documentation in order to improve safety for patients, physicians, and the community at large.
Increasing Naloxone Availability, Brian Till
Increasing Naloxone Availability, Brian Till
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Administration of naloxone is credited with the reversal of at least 10,000 opioid overdoses in the United States between 1996-2010 alone.[i] Moreover, intranasal naloxone has proven an equally effective route of drug administration when compared to IV dosing in emergent prehospital settings[ii], and retrospective studies have shown no significant difference in efficacy between doses delivered by healthcare professionals and non-healthcare professionals.[iii] Despite these facts, and broad protections provided to physicians prescribing naloxone and citizens administering naloxone outlined in Vermont Act 75, few if any Vermont physicians have incorporated prescribing naloxone into their practice. This project intended …