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Opioid Prescribing
This module is designed to familiarise you wth common prescribing problems in Palliative Care.
Learning Objectives
- To know how to initiate MR and IR opioids
- To understand how to prescribe transdermal opioids and calculate PRN doses for these prescriptions
- To practise converting doses of transdermal and oral opioids into syringe driver doses
- To know how to prescribe opioids for patients with renal impairment, especially at the end of life
Resource details
| Contributed by: | North Cumbria Integrated Care Foundation Trust (NCIC) |
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| Licence: | © All rights reserved More information on licences |
| Last updated: | 19 June 2025 |
| First contributed: | 17 April 2025 |
| Audience access level: | General user |
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