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?

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...