RCoA and BJA webinar: Chronic Opioid Use: the Other Pandemic

The RCoA and British Journal of Anaesthesia are pleased to announce a series of webinars available to our members on how to optimise your reading of the medical literature.

This webinar will discuss a recent guideline paper from the BJA on Chronic opioid use.

We were unable to answer all the questions during the live webinar, please find some additional questions and answers here. 

Chairs: 

• Dr Hugh Hemmings, Editor in Chief, British Journal of Anaesthesia
• Professor Lesley Colvin, Chair of Pain Medicine/ Hon Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine Editor, British Journal of Anaesthesia

Programme:

• Chronic opioid use-can guidelines guide us: To discuss guidelines around opioid use -  Professor Lesley Colvin, Chair of Pain Medicine/ Hon Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine Editor, British Journal of Anaesthesia
• Are opioids indispensable for general anesthesia? -Professor Talmage Egan, Professor, Department Of Anesthesiology, University of Utah
• What's in the opioid pipeline? New approaches to analgesia-  Professor David Lambert, Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester
• Featured method: Guidelines, Consensus Statements and Expert Opinion-is there any difference? - Dr Lisa Qia Rong, Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine

This webinar was recorded on 20 October 2020