Choosing Pain Meds – Non Opiates

Welcome to part 2 of Choosing pain meds. To learn about choosing opiate pain medications, how to pick IV or PO pain meds, or why pain can be so dang hard to treat, check out last week’s episode. Pain PDF Handout   There are two different pain pathways (for this talk):  the neurotransmitter substance P…

Choosing Pain Meds – Opiates

Welcome to Part 1 of the ins and outs of choosing pain medications.  Explore how to choose between IV and PO narcotic pain meds, which opiate to use, how it works, the side effects, pseudoallergies and oh so much more!  Pain PDF Handout Purpose of pain = warning the body something is wrong. Pain is…

Origin Story & how this works

We finally have it up! Our new website!! Yeah. MedMechanix is intended for MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS ONLY and should not be used as medical advice or the right answer on your test. This includes Physicians, NPs, PAs, med students of all kinds, basically whoever finds this information useful for their professional lives. General Goal: 1-2 episodes…