#53: Vulnerability in Neurology, Installment #3
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Potential challenges for neurologists on the clinical front lines, installment #3.
Publication Date: Jan 19, 2007.
Show Notes: A low-cost alternative to sustained release opiates - methadone: has it led to increased vulnerability - increased morbidity and mortality - from sleep apnea?
And you’re trying to switch a patient from morphine-based opioids to methadone, should you use the standard conversion tables?
Your patient is told he should consider a carotid endarterectomy - what’s the patient’s chance of having post-CEA cognitive decline, and what genetic test might help you assess his risk for incurring that cognitive decline?
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