Best Practices for Treating Pain with Opioid Analgesics
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About the Course:
This course provides the fundamentals of acute and chronic pain management and a contextual framework for the safer prescribing of opioid analgesics that includes consideration of a full complement of non-opioid treatment options.
Learning Objectives:
Completion of this course will better enable the course participant to:
InforMed is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement
InforMed designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
This course provides the fundamentals of acute and chronic pain management and a contextual framework for the safer prescribing of opioid analgesics that includes consideration of a full complement of non-opioid treatment options.
Learning Objectives:
Completion of this course will better enable the course participant to:
- Discuss pain and comorbidity assessments as appropriate to the individual patient and pain type and duration.
- Discuss an individualized treatment plan utilizing or considering a full range of medication and non-medication options.
- Identify risk or presence of OUD before initiating or continuing opioid therapy for pain.
- Recognize signs and symptoms of OUD, strategies for optimal management, and when to refer to a specialist.
InforMed is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement
InforMed designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page