Search is unavailable while you are offline.
Sign Up
/
Sign In

You are not connected to the internet and now in offline mode. Only pages or articles you visited while connected will be available.

  1. Virtual Library
  2. Anaesthesia Tutorial of the Week
  3. Perioperative Management of Opioid Use Disorder Patients on Buprenorphine/Naloxone

Sign up to receive email updates about our educational opportunities.

By subscribing, you agree to receive emails from WFSA. You may unsubscribe at any time. See our privacy policy for more details

Pain

Tutorial 370
Take Online Test

An online test is available for self-directed Continuous Medical Education (CME). It is estimated to take 1 hour to complete. Please record time spent and report this to your accrediting body if you wish to claim CME points. A certificate will be awarded upon passing the test. Please refer to the accreditation policy here.

Perioperative Management of Opioid Use Disorder Patients on Buprenorphine/Naloxone

Drs. Alan Tung1, Clinton Wong2, Nadia Fairbairn3
1Anesthesia Resident, St. Paul’s Hospital, Canada
2Clinical Professor, Division of Acute and Interventional Pain Management, Department of Anesthesiology, St. Paul’s Hospital, Canada
3Assistant Professor, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, St. Paul’s Hospital, Canada

Edited by
Dr. Amanda Baric
Anaesthetist, Department of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine, Northern Health

Correspondence to atotw@wordpress-1154955-4022140.cloudwaysapps.com

9th Jan 2018

Abstract

Buprenorphine/naloxone (i.e. Suboxone®, Zubsolv®, Bunavail®) is an increasingly popular evidence-based therapy for opioid use disorder. This tutorial describes its unique pharmacology, the challenges it poses to anesthetic management and the strategies for providing perioperative analgesia to patients on buprenorphine/naloxone.

creative commons

This work by WFSA is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/