opioids

NSAIDs vs OPIOIDS – ROUND 3, FIGHT!

December 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

“Four legs good, two legs bad.” – Snowball’s summary of the Seven Commandments of Animalism, Animal Farm Similar to Snowball’s cry, ‘NSAIDs bad, Opioids good’ has been the mantra chanted by nephrologists for many decades. How true [read more...]

#NephMadness 2020: Mary Jane’s Big Dance – Marijuana is OK (When Used Responsibly and Safely) in Kidney Transplantation

April 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

Joshua Rein @ThepHunClub Joshua Rein is an Instructor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. His clinical and research interests include the kidney endocannabinoid system and the effects of cannabis and [read more...]

Test Your Knowledge: Plasma Exchange

September 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

We cannot wait to share the NephMadness 2020 logo at Kidney Week. Until then, we are releasing a quiz* each week from the eight regions of NephMadness 2019, starting with the Plasma Exchange region this week. Plasmapheresis, simply removal of [read more...]

#NephMadness 2019: Novick Nominates Opioids For the Win

April 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Tessa Novick @tessa_novick Tessa Novick is a third-year nephrology fellow at Johns Hopkins. Her research interests include social determinants of health, healthcare disparities, opioids, and illicit drug use in kidney disease. Competitors for the [read more...]

#NephMadness 2019: Pain Region

March 15, 2019 // 3 Comments

Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2019 | #NephMadness | #PainRegion Selection Committee Member: David Juurlink David Juurlink is a staff internist and head of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (DCPT) at Sunnybrook. He is [read more...]

Pain, CKD, and What to Do About It

February 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Patients with CKD experience pain at a similar burden to patients suffering from cancer. This causes a negative impact on quality of life, but also leads to missed dialysis treatments and increased ER visits and hospitalizations. Pain management [read more...]

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