Opioid-induced ventilatory impairment: current 'track and trigger' tools need to be updated

J Bowen; N Levy; P Macintyre

doi:10.1111/anae.15030

Opioid-induced ventilatory impairment: current 'track and trigger' tools need to be updated

Anaesthesia. 2020 Dec;75(12):1574-1578. doi: 10.1111/anae.15030. Epub 2020 Apr 5.

Authors

J Bowen¹, N Levy¹, P Macintyre^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Suffolk, UK.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Pain Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
³ Discipline of Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide, SA, Australia.

PMID: 32249425
DOI: 10.1111/anae.15030

No abstract available

Keywords: early warning systems; failure to rescue; opioid-induced respiratory depression; opioid-induced ventilatory impairment; sedation scoring; track and trigger systems.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / adverse effects*
Conscious Sedation
Humans
Incidence
Respiration Disorders / chemically induced*
Respiration Disorders / diagnosis
Respiration Disorders / epidemiology
Risk Factors

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid