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What is your preferred analgesic in patients with small bowel obstruction or ileus?

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Hospital Medicine · University of California San Francisco

I typically use IV Tylenol ATC if fully obstructed, and IV Toradol if no other contraindications to NSAIDs (and they often are quite prerenal or losing a lot of fluid from an NG tube, so I often don't feel comfortable with more than a couple doses, and if I think they are going to the OR, I do not u...

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