This CME series addresses the challenges of managing patients with chronic non-malignant pain. In addition to reviewing the evidence-based recommendations about assessment and management, the series also offers strategies and tools to assist physicians in integrating these principles into practice.
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Management of Chronic Pain Series
Series Overview
Series Objectives
- Review evidence-based guidelines for assessment and management of acute and chronic nonmalignant pain
- Provide tools to assist with the assessment of pain in clinical practice
- Review non-pharmacological treatment options
- Discuss available analgesics (opioid, nonopioid, adjuvant) and their use in pain management
- Discuss issues and misconceptions in the management of acute and chronic nonmalignant pain
- Discuss approaches to monitoring treatment response, managing adverse effects and optimizing outcomes in pain patients
- Identify challenges and barriers to the effective management of pain and provide insight regarding potential solutions
- Discuss strategies for pain management in patients with risk factors for substance abuse or a current or past history of substance abuse
Accessing the CME Activities
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Activity 1: Assessment and Management of Chronic Pain
This webcast provides an overview of the issues in managing chronic, non-malignant pain in a family practice. Evidence-based guidelines are reviewed and two PDA tools are provided.
Activity 2: Managing the Chronic Pain Patient At Risk or With a History of Addiction
Managing chronic pain in patients who are at risk or have a history of addiction presents a particular treatment challenge for many family physicians. The expert faculty address common concerns and offer advice on managing these patients.
Activity 3: Challenging Issues in Pain Management
A family physician and a pain specialist discuss practical strategies for dealing with the most common challenges of managing chronic pain.
Activity 4: Pain Management in Special Populations
This video presentation focuses on important - and often problematic - disparity of care issues affecting patients in special populations.
Activity 5: Practical Aspects of Chronic Pain Management: Case Studies
This program features patient cases that integrate the evidence-based recommendations, practice tips, and management strategies presented in the preceding activities.
Activity 6: Chronic Pain and Depression
The combination of pain and depression is associated with worse clinical outcomes than those seen with either condition alone. This video case dramatization demonstrates the process of care when chronic pain and depression are both present.
Activity 7: Fibromyalgia: Challenges in Pain Management
Managing the pain component of fibromyalgia is particularly challenging and frustrating for the family physician for many reasons. This activity puts the growing body of evidence-based guidelines into clinical context and provides a clear strategy for the management of fibromyalgia in family medicine.
This webcast provides an overview of the issues in managing chronic, non-malignant pain in a family practice. Evidence-based guidelines are reviewed and two PDA tools are provided.
Activity 2: Managing the Chronic Pain Patient At Risk or With a History of Addiction
Managing chronic pain in patients who are at risk or have a history of addiction presents a particular treatment challenge for many family physicians. The expert faculty address common concerns and offer advice on managing these patients.
Activity 3: Challenging Issues in Pain Management
A family physician and a pain specialist discuss practical strategies for dealing with the most common challenges of managing chronic pain.
Activity 4: Pain Management in Special Populations
This video presentation focuses on important - and often problematic - disparity of care issues affecting patients in special populations.
Activity 5: Practical Aspects of Chronic Pain Management: Case Studies
This program features patient cases that integrate the evidence-based recommendations, practice tips, and management strategies presented in the preceding activities.
Activity 6: Chronic Pain and Depression
The combination of pain and depression is associated with worse clinical outcomes than those seen with either condition alone. This video case dramatization demonstrates the process of care when chronic pain and depression are both present.
Activity 7: Fibromyalgia: Challenges in Pain Management
Managing the pain component of fibromyalgia is particularly challenging and frustrating for the family physician for many reasons. This activity puts the growing body of evidence-based guidelines into clinical context and provides a clear strategy for the management of fibromyalgia in family medicine.
Acknowledgment of Support
Activities 1, 3, 4 and 5 are supported by educational grant from Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs. Activity 2 is supported by an educational grant from Purdue Pharma LP. Activity 6 is supported by an educational grant from Eli Lilly and Company. Activity 7 is supported by an educational grant from Pfizer Inc.
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