Looking for Pain Medication Equivalency/Strength Chart

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Where can I find a list of opioid and non opioid pain medications by strength? It's hard to explain, but I'm looking for a chart or even a list of meds that has these medications listed from most effective to least effective along with half-lives and equivalencies.

I googled it and this was the closest thing I found...but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. Any ideas of where I can get this information?

Since I give a lot of pain medication at work I'd like to be able to readily compare them.

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Where can I find a list of opioid and non opioid pain medications by strength? It's hard to explain, but I'm looking for a chart or even a list of meds that has these medications listed from most effective to least effective along with half-lives and equivalencies.

I googled it and this was the closest thing I found...but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. Any ideas of where I can get this information?

Since I give a lot of pain medication at work I'd like to be able to readily compare them.

I like what you found - it'll give you a better idea of what you will see in various circumstances (e.g. PCA and peds), as well as clinical considerations, durations, onsets, etc.

Nice job! :)

leslie :-D

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check out all the links on this page.

http://book.pallcare.info/index.php?op=plugin&src=opiconv

leslie

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I love leslie's link!

What you are looking for is called an equianalgesic chart.

Here is one:http://www.endpain.org/dosage.html

And another that is a pdf:http://www.tagpeoria.org/EQUIANALGESIC%20CHART.pdf

Another that is a bit more complex (but has a lot of information): http://champ.bsd.uchicago.edu/documents/Pallpaincard2009update.pdf

And last but not least, the 4 page one from McCaffery

Chart1a.pdf

Chart1b.pdf

Chart2a.pdf

Chart2b.pdf

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