Hospital Care of the Opioid Exposed Newborn Podcast

Have you ever wondered how newborns exposed to opioids (prescribed and not) in-utero were cared for after birth? In this talk, we will cover what to expect and help you become more comfortable counseling your patients who may care for opioid-exposed infants.  We will also cover historical practices and the recent shift to the “Eat, Sleep, Console” method and why this is a much better patient- and family-centered approach.

Learning Objectives:

• Review the history of hospital management of “neonatal abstinence syndrome” (NAS) and provide context for advances that have occurred in this realm in the past decade
• Discuss the Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) protocol as an evidence-based tool in the treatment of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS)
• Review that ESC focuses on the comfort and care of substance exposed infants by maximizing non-pharmacological methods, increasing family involvement in the treatment of their infant and “as-needed” use of morphine