Hello.

I am new to the med safety role & in need of some expert advice on a process that is new to our facility.

Our anesthesiologists assist with pain managment at our hospital and a new physician has a practice of having nurses dilute dilaudid 1mg in 10mL normal saline and infusing it over 15 minutes to avoid "patient conflation of opioid-induced euphoria vs. true analgesic benefit."