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PAINWeek
September 3-7, 2019
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
The national conference on pain for frontline practitioners. PAINWeek is the largest US pain conference for frontline clinicians with an interest in pain management.
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The regional conference on pain for frontline practitioners. Depending on the location (1 or 2-day meetings), 6 to 12 hours per day of CE/CME credit hours are presented.
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Education
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| opioid therapy
Post-Surgical Pain Control? No Opioids Required…
A 2-year study conducted by a multidisciplinary team of cancer specialists and surgeons from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has concluded that opioids are seldom...
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| abuse
Illicit Fentanyl--Even Worse Than We Thought?
Researchers at University of California San Francisco have released a chilling analysis of the spread of illicitly produced fentanyl into the...
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| back pain
Back Pain Costs More When Combined With Depression
Further confirmation of the value of an integrative approach to pain care was provided by conclusions reached in a recent study of healthcare expenditures for...
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| abuse
Escalating Rates of IE Hospitalization Due to Opioid Misuse
A study of almost 23,000 patients in North Carolina who were hospitalized for infective endocarditis found that 11% could be linked to the patient’s history...
READ
A PAINWeek attendee said that “Coming to PAINWeek is like eating brainfood. You feel so much smarter when you leave.”
This section of our Website houses insights and epiphanies from our stellar PAINWeek faculty. If you prefer smaller plates of information, then Brainfood is the place to go!
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Substance Use Disorder: The Tools of Treatment
Dr. Cheatle reviews some medication and non-medication treatment options for addressing substance use disorder. The message to primary care: a multimodal approach works best, and treatment of the SUD without attention to management of the patient’s underlying pain is the likely route to relapse.
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Topical Opioids can Reduce Systemic Exposure
In reviewing the literature with topical opioids, like many things that are kind of outside the box, a lot of it is not standardized.
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Listen to PAINWeek Podcasts featuring faculty presenting courses from previous PAINWeek conferences.
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PWJ - PAINWeek Journal, like our website, is meant to extend the energy and experience of the national conference throughout the entire year. Each issue presents articles developed by our PAINWeek faculty, adapted from their respective conference presentations.
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