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So another one of my hospitals has become the victim to drug shortages....
No Preservative free morphine left in the building
I've not used dilaudid much epidurally (Only to dose some of my thoracic epidurals) and never in a lumbar/labor epidural and I have never given it intrathecally
Any opinions on a difference in effect from duramorph to dilaudid?
I don't even have enough experience with epidural/spinal dilaudid to know good equivalent doses to attempt. I'm curious what works for you??
If I were to give 4-5mg duramorph via CLE, clinically...do people see similar effects at .5-1mg Dilaudid?
How about for 250mcg of intrathecal duramorph? I don't have a good guess for effective intrathecal dilaudid with the lowest side-effect profile I can get....any ideas?
The search I did didn't reveal any good comparisons between the two
No Preservative free morphine left in the building
I've not used dilaudid much epidurally (Only to dose some of my thoracic epidurals) and never in a lumbar/labor epidural and I have never given it intrathecally
Any opinions on a difference in effect from duramorph to dilaudid?
I don't even have enough experience with epidural/spinal dilaudid to know good equivalent doses to attempt. I'm curious what works for you??
If I were to give 4-5mg duramorph via CLE, clinically...do people see similar effects at .5-1mg Dilaudid?
How about for 250mcg of intrathecal duramorph? I don't have a good guess for effective intrathecal dilaudid with the lowest side-effect profile I can get....any ideas?
The search I did didn't reveal any good comparisons between the two