In a hospitalized patient with compensated cirrhosis or heavy alcohol use requiring analgesia, do you use acetaminophen and if so how do you approach dosing?
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Hospital Medicine · UT Health San Antonio
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For compensated cirrhosis, acetaminophen could be used. It's a common practice to offer acetaminophen in these patients at max 2 g/day. Again, I would advise closely monitoring liver function.
In patients with heavy alcohol use, acetaminophen could be used cautiously if the liver function is fine (w...
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