Patients with Opioid Use Disorder who are taking buprenorphine (prescribed or non-prescribed) will enter our care for emergent or planned procedures, with an acute or chronic pain condition, and may already be our patients in the ambulatory setting. Managing patients with painful conditions who take buprenorphine can be challenging and rewarding. With the X waiver requirement to prescribe buprenorphine removed, we are likely to see an increase in patients taking this medication. This presentation will focus on management of buprenorphine for patients with Opioid Use Disorder and receiving treatment for a painful condition.
Learning Objectives:
Initiate opioid naïve patients on buprenorphine products for chronic pain
Rotate patients from full agonist opioids to buprenorphine for chronic pain
Taper buprenorphine to lower doses or to discontinuation
