Oakstone CME Comprehensive Review of Pain Medicine

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Pain Medicine CME from the Experts

The 45+ lectures in this online CME program, Comprehensive Review of Pain Medicine, promote effective pain management as a clinical imperative. An evidence-based look at pharmacological, procedural, and nonpharmacological treatment recommendations with an emphasis on the issues and dilemmas of opioid therapy. It’s continuing medical education that will help you to better understand:

• New analgesic targets and emerging therapies
• Interventional therapy and clinical care updates
• Cancer pain and palliative care, including religious perspectives
• Pain management, healthcare systems, public policy and the law
• Solutions to gaps in policy, treatment, attitudes, and education

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this CME activity, you will be better able to:

• Describe the benefits of and the advances in spinal cord stimulation
• Name emerging treatment modalities for chronic back pain
• Explain the challenges in prescribing opioids for chronic pain
• Summarize the pain management issues with patient with substance use disorders
• Discuss current and evidence-based postoperative pain management
• Identify effective nonpharmacological pain management modalities
• Discuss the complexities of cancer pain management
• Compare religious perspectives on pain and the end of life care
• Explain the germane issues of pain and palliative care
• Summarize legal problems related to prescribing opioids

Intended Audience

This educational activity was designed for Anesthesiologists, Neurologists, Psychiatrists, Emergency Physicians, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Doctors, Oncologists, Internists, and Family Physicians.