Chronic Pain : Managing Without Opioids
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OVERVIEW
Chronic Pain : Managing Without Opioids is organized by Canadian Institute for the Relief of Pain and Disability (CIRPD) and will be held on Feb 27, 2018
Course Description :
Treatment of chronic pain requires “multimodal analgesia,” a management plan that often requires pharmacological as well as nondrug therapies, and very importantly large measures of clinician-guided patient self-management. Chronic pain management should rarely, if ever, be opioid mono-therapy. Understanding the clinical role and value of non-opioids, the so-called “adjuvant” drugs, improves outcomes and reduces over-reliance on opioids and their demonstrated risks. The conflation of chronic pain management with the prescription of opioids, often at high dose, has for the past 20 years overlooked long-established core tenets of multidisciplinary chronic pain care that is fundamentally about restoring function and enabling behavioral re-training; these are best and more safely accomplished without opioids and other central nervous system depressants.
Course Objectives :
• Describe why chronic pain pharmacological treatment should not be opioid mono-therapy.
• Defend the role and value of non-drug options for management of chronic pain.
• Discuss the clinical value and potential side-effects of commonly used “adjuvant” drugs in the management of chronic pain, including anti-inflammatories, antidepressants, and anticonvulsants.
• Understand why, when, and how alternatives to opioids improve outcomes of your pain management plan.
Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.
Course Description :
Treatment of chronic pain requires “multimodal analgesia,” a management plan that often requires pharmacological as well as nondrug therapies, and very importantly large measures of clinician-guided patient self-management. Chronic pain management should rarely, if ever, be opioid mono-therapy. Understanding the clinical role and value of non-opioids, the so-called “adjuvant” drugs, improves outcomes and reduces over-reliance on opioids and their demonstrated risks. The conflation of chronic pain management with the prescription of opioids, often at high dose, has for the past 20 years overlooked long-established core tenets of multidisciplinary chronic pain care that is fundamentally about restoring function and enabling behavioral re-training; these are best and more safely accomplished without opioids and other central nervous system depressants.
Course Objectives :
• Describe why chronic pain pharmacological treatment should not be opioid mono-therapy.
• Defend the role and value of non-drug options for management of chronic pain.
• Discuss the clinical value and potential side-effects of commonly used “adjuvant” drugs in the management of chronic pain, including anti-inflammatories, antidepressants, and anticonvulsants.
• Understand why, when, and how alternatives to opioids improve outcomes of your pain management plan.
Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.
SPECIALITIES
Pain Management
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