Clinical Policy: Critical Issues Related to Opioids in Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department
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Emergency Medicine, Pain Management, Emergency Medicine
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Clinical Policy: Critical Issues Related to Opioids in Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department is organized by American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
Release: 7/5/23
Expires April 30, 2026
Description:
This activity, based on the ACEP clinical policy, reviews the available evidence surrounding issues related to opioids in adult patients presenting to the emergency department.
Objectives:
- Employ buprenorphine as the most recommended treatment for opioid withdrawal in the emergency department.
- Identify nonopioid pain regimens as safer while being at least as effective compared to opioids to treat most acute painful conditions in patients being discharged from the emergency department.
- Recognize the risks of prescribing even a short course of opioids for most ED patients with acute exacerbations of chronic noncancer pain outweigh the negligible to potentially nonexistent benefits of prescribing these medications.
- Avoid co-prescribing opioids and benzodiazepines due to the increased risk of overdose, respiratory depression, and death.