Las Vegas—It’s not just opioids that can cause respiratory depression. A variety of different medications alone or in combination can be a dangerous mix, which is why Lynn Webster, MD, and his colleague Gregory J. Stoddard, MBA, MPH, an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, have devised a system for rating medications’ likelihood of causing respiratory depression. Webster, who is a senior fellow at the
NOVEMBER 4, 2021