TY - JOUR
T1 - Guidelines for the assessment and management of addiction in the hospitalized patient with opioid use disorder
T2 - a twenty-first century update
AU - Shmuts, Rachel
AU - Kay, Abigail
AU - Beck, Melanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Società Italiana di Medicina Interna (SIMI).
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - While there have been many articles published on managing the medical sequelae of opioid use disorder in specific patient populations or settings, there is a dearth of literature on assessing and managing opioid use disorder in the acute hospital setting. In 1975, Fultz and Senay published proposed guidelines on the management of what they called the “hospitalized narcotic addict” Fultz and Senay (Ann Intern Med 82(6):815–818, 1975). Since then, many new developments in the treatment of opioid use disorder have occurred. In our experience, services in the acute inpatient hospital turn to psychiatric consultation teams for recommendations on how to manage these complicated and, sometimes, difficult patients. This article serves to provide the internal medicine physician a foundation of understanding how to address the main issues in hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder on a general medical or surgical floor.
AB - While there have been many articles published on managing the medical sequelae of opioid use disorder in specific patient populations or settings, there is a dearth of literature on assessing and managing opioid use disorder in the acute hospital setting. In 1975, Fultz and Senay published proposed guidelines on the management of what they called the “hospitalized narcotic addict” Fultz and Senay (Ann Intern Med 82(6):815–818, 1975). Since then, many new developments in the treatment of opioid use disorder have occurred. In our experience, services in the acute inpatient hospital turn to psychiatric consultation teams for recommendations on how to manage these complicated and, sometimes, difficult patients. This article serves to provide the internal medicine physician a foundation of understanding how to address the main issues in hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder on a general medical or surgical floor.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11739-021-02636-9
DO - 10.1007/s11739-021-02636-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 33515425
AN - SCOPUS:85100068365
SN - 1828-0447
VL - 16
SP - 1253
EP - 1260
JO - Internal and Emergency Medicine
JF - Internal and Emergency Medicine
IS - 5
ER -