Convert your patient’s opioid daily dose to the morphine equivalent dose (med) by using this online calculator. The opioid conversion calculator tells you equivalent doses of analgesic drugs, such as morphine, fentanyl, or tramadol. Adjust for dose, frequency, and risk factors For educational use by healthcare professionals. The half life of the two drugs needs to be considered when converting so that the patient does not experience breakthrough pain or receive too much opiate during the conversion period. The calculator provides conversions from one opioid to another and/or from one route of administration to another, to be used as a guide only
It is not tailored to any specific pain syndrome or for utilisation by specific healthcare professionals. For pts prescribed opioids as outpt, need naloxone 4 mg intranasal
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