Anaesthesia | Pain | Step III: Administration Techniques : Epidural, Intrathecal
Step III: Administration Techniques – Epidural, Intrathecal
Session Overview
Description
This session looks at the action of opioids given by epidural and intrathecal routes and considers the key adverse effects; it will enable you to execute a management strategy for these adverse effects.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Summarize the site of action of opioids given by epidural and intrathecal routes
- Explain how drug lipophilicity affects absorption, clinical effects and side-effects
- Recall dose ranges for three opioids given by epidural or intrathecal routes
- Summarize four adverse effects
Prerequisites
Before commencing this session you should:
- Module 05a/Pharmacology Treatments/Step II-III: Opioids - commonly available opioids (001-0512)
- Module 05a/Pharmacological targets/Central nervous system (001-0500)
- Module 05b/Neuraxial techniques/Performing spinal and epidural injections (001-0538)
This session covers the use of spinal opioids in acute pain.
Opioids delivered by the spinal route offer a powerful analgesic tool for thoracic, abdominal and lower limb surgery.
To use opioids effectively and safely in this way we need to understand how drug lipophilicity affects:
- Spread within the cerebrospinal fluid delivery to receptor sites
- Speed of onset
- Duration of action
- Side-effects
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