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  1. Opioid equivalency calc needs newer opiates added

    The opiate conversion calc is great, except that it is missing some newer opiate medications. The main one that is missing is Oxymorphone, also known as Opana or OpanaER. This drug is becoming as big as oxycodone for long term care of chronic pain and cancer patients due to its potency, so including conversion formulas in the opiate equivalency calc would be a wise decision and benefit a lot of people, especially since there is a lot of conflicting data out there, sometimes saying that its equivalence to oxycodone is 1:2 respectively and other times ill see its equivalence stated…

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  2. Correction on the serum osmolality formula information

    Glucose should be divided by 18. So it should be (2 x Na) + (glucose/18) + (BUN / 2.8) source: Kaplan 2003, p.41

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