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All types of healthcare professionals may encounter challenges and obstacles to patient outcomes despite providing optimized treatment plans and state-of-the-art care. These obstacles may come from a variety of barriers including the existence of secondary gains, low patient motivation, misalignment...
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This session will help clinicians understand the role of interdisciplinary care in pain management by identifying the components of the biopsychosocial model. Cases will be discussed, and a review of literature findings supporting multidisciplinary treatment approaches and the chronification of pain...
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Methadone is a very useful opioid that indisputably requires careful attention to dosing and monitoring. In this fast paced presentation, participants will learn about the American Pain Society guidelines for the safe and effective use of methadone and how those guidelines should be applied for...
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Burnout has reached epidemic proportions among healthcare professionals and is especially high among those who care for patients with chronic pain and chronic painful conditions such as migraine and fibromyalgia. This course will review the definition and prevalence of burnout, review the risk...
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Pain management is prevalent in the workers' compensation industry as employees are treated for a workplace injury or illness. In managing an injured worker's pain, there are many things to consider, from appropriate utilization of opioid analgesics to the potential impact of underlying comorbid...
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EDs are searching for new ways to treat pain that are rapid, safe, and effective. The search for new options is being driven by the national outcry to decrease opioid prescribing, pressure to see patients faster, decrease ED length of stay, and prevent readmissions while still treating pain and...
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Interprofessional education (IPE) has primary goals: to improve outcomes; to reach the population in a healthcare setting where teams can actually provide cost-effectiveness to lower our healthcare costs; and to reach unreached areas. We do the latter with teams: in the interprofessional education...
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Biobehavioral treatments are a great addition to the toolkit that primary care providers already have. Not only can they help with managing the pain condition, they can help with all sorts of associated symptoms like depression and anxiety, frustration and lack of self-efficacy, as well as with...
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A clinical pharmacist from the Bay Pine VA in Florida discusses an interprofessional education model.
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When we consider the 50 billion brain cells and trillions of connections that are involved in the experience of pain, it’s preposterous to think that administering a pill or a series of pills or a patch is really going to change the environment substantially. There are so many ways to impact that...