Toradol

you can only use trorodol for 72 hours, it beats the hell out of your kidneys and liver.

Blue Bear: I was informed that some inflammation is necessary immediately post-op fusion/ lami and that Toradol is a no-no -- our chief will chew you a new one. Of course Toradol is never given preop for any ortho patient for bleeding purposes. I have yet to hear that the 72 hour dosing interferes with anticoags.

Our consultants don't like toradol on post-ops or pre-ops. Only people they give it to really are back pains, arthritis...stuff like that. Like the above, they would really crack up if one of the post-ops or pre-ops got toradol. Drug of choice for pain relief at the moment seems to be oxycodone orally or morphine s/c or im.

Thanks so much for the heads-up! Very useful info!

as a home care nurse, i am also curious..not about toradol, but the other NSAIDs and s/p joint replacements...after discharge from hospital...

Hey thanks for the great info everbody..I just stumbled in to this one, and guess what...I just accepted a job on ortho/trauma unit this week! i got lucky!

Toradol is classified as an NSAID right? Can you give it to a patient with gastric bleed? I know of one MD who prescribed it to a patient, whom he does not know has hx of gastric bleed.undefined

Toradol is on our standing orders for our post-open heart patients. Some of our exclusion criteria include hx of peptic ulcer disease, creat >1.2, allergy to NSAIDS, and a few others...it is too bad that it can't be used more often as it really works well for most people.

Wow, I had one pt on our medsurg floor who was in with a hip fx but was his trip to the OR kept getting delayed d/t other acute problems like resp. problems. So they kept him on toradol round the clock for like over two weeks. At the same time they diagnosed him with multiple DVT's so they also had him on scheduled lovenox as well.

Toradol is actually on our standing orders for post-op knees and hips!

The only guy I know who doesn't use Toradol is the ortho doc who does backs - but he liberally precribes Lorcets/Vicodin etc. (NSAIDs).

While I did know about the 72 hrs limit d/t kidney/liver - I had NO idea Toradol was a no-no with ortho surgeries and it's conflict with anti-coags!



cheers,