Chronic Pain Management: Best Practices

Chronic Pain Management: Best Practices - FREE No CME

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Chronic Pain Management: Best Practices, focuses on the practical aspects of managing chronic pain, particularly with opioid therapy. This session will guide participants in identifying appropriate candidates for chronic opioid therapy initiation and provide strategies for effectively discussing expectations with these patients. The lecture will cover the implementation of appropriate monitoring techniques for chronic opioid therapy, including methods to minimize side effects and adverse outcomes. Participants will learn about the evidence supporting naloxone prescribing and dispensing for patients on chronic opioid therapy. Furthermore, this session will address strategies for managing opioid misuse and concomitant substance use disorder. Finally, the lecture will provide a comprehensive understanding of how to safely and effectively discontinue chronic opioid therapy when necessary.

Target Audience

Physicians
Advanced Practice Clinicians

Learning Objectives

Identify patients appropriate for initiation of chronic opioid therapy and how to discuss expectations
Implement appropriate monitoring of chronic opioid therapy and how to minimize side effects and adverse outcomes
Describe the evidence for naloxone prescribing/dispensing for patients on chronic opioid therapy
Discuss how to address opioid misuse and concomitant substance use disorder

Dr. Don Stader, is a board-certified emergency and addiction medicine physician, who works at Swedish Medical Center and Lincoln Health in Colorado. Don is also the founder and Executive Director of The Naloxone Project. He is the founder and past chair of Colorado ACEP's Opioid Task Force, the Editor-in-Chief of COACEP's 2017 Opioid Prescribing & Treatment Guidelines and the CO's CURE’s guidelines on pain control and opioid stewardship. Don served for over 2 years as the Senior Pain Management & Opioid Policy Physician Adviser for the Colorado Hospital Association and serves on multiple national and local committees addressing the opioid epidemic in Colorado and across the nation, he is the current chair of ACEP’s Pain & Addiction Management Section. He is the Medical Director of the Compass Opioid Stewardship Program, a nationwide initiative to improve pain control, prescribing habits, addiction treatment and opioid stewardship for primary care clinicians.

No CME is available with this course. To access CME please register for the course titled Chronic Pain Management: Best Practices-CME Paid Option.

This material was prepared by Compass Healthcare Collaborative (Compass)

Fees are charged solely for individuals seeking Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. All educational materials are provided at no cost and are freely accessible regardless of CME participation. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Iowa Medical Society (IMS). Compass is accredited by the IMS to provide continuing medical education for physicians.