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End of Life Online Curriculum - Modules
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Pain Control: Opioid Conversion
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Parenteral to oral
conversion ratios of common opioids
Drug |
Oral to parenteral ratio |
| Oral Morphine: Parenteral Morphine |
3:1 |
| Oral Hydromorphone : Parenteral Hydromorphone |
5:1 |
| Oral Levorphanol : Parenteral Levorphanol |
1:1 |
| Oral Methadone : Parenteral Methadone |
2:1 |
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©End
of Life Curriculum Project, a joint project of the US Veterans Administration
and SUMMIT,
Stanford University Medical School.
Funded by a grant to the Veterans
Administration Nationwide Palliative Care Network by
the National Library of Medicine. VJ Periyakoil, MD, Director.
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