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Chronic Pain Management: Best Practices
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
- Understand how to safely and effectively discontinue chronic opioid therapy
Don Stader, MD, FACEP, FASAM
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.
Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Iowa Medical Society (IMS). Compass Healthcare Collaborative (Compass) is accredited by the IMS to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation: The Compass Healthcare Collaborative (Compass) designates this live activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Commercial Support: This Activity was developed without support from any ineligible company. *The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests – unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.
Disclosure: Compass adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. The content of this activity is not related to products or the business lines of an ACCME-defined ineligible company. Compass has identified, reviewed, and mitigated all conflicts of interest that speakers, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers, or relevant staff disclose prior to the delivery of any educational activity.
Available Credit
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™