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Not Quite Child’s Play: Using Beanbags to Teach Opioid Dosing and Rotation

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Pain management education is lacking in medical education, especially pediatrics. Using beanbags constructed to represent commonly used opioids with areas proportional to the drugs’ potencies, this hands-on approach is used in small-group sessions to introduce opioid dosing, potencies, and rotation through case-based exercises. Next steps will include analysis of impact using pre- and post-intervention surveys.

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    Rebecca E. MacDonell-Yilmaz

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MacDonell-Yilmaz, R.E. Not Quite Child’s Play: Using Beanbags to Teach Opioid Dosing and Rotation. Med.Sci.Educ. 30, 671–672 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-020-00947-8

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