Penn Medicine Opioid Stewardship 2022: Comprehensive Pain Management: Opioids and Beyond
Penn Medicine Opioid Stewardship 2022: Comprehensive Pain Management: Opioids and Beyond is organized by Penn Medicine - Continuing Medical and Interprofessional Education.
Start Date: 01/03/2022
End Date: 10/17/2025
Description:
This course is complimentary to participate on and is available ONLY to Penn Employees.
The goal of the educational activity is to change the paradigm towards more judicious opioid prescribing by providing an overview of the opioid epidemic and identifying strategies for clinicians to safely manage and treat acute and chronic pain, promote adherence to new prescribing guidelines and promote harm reduction with opioid use. New Joint Commission requirements issued January 1, 2018 mandate that our health system provide educational resources to address these key areas.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:
• Provide an overview of the opioid crisis on a national, state and local level.
• List pain mechanisms/pathways and multi-modal treatment strategies for pain.
• Review the new prescribing guidelines from the CDC and Penn Medicine.
• Explain the use of drugs that reverse toxic opioid effects and drugs utilized to combat opioid use disorder
Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.
