• Activity INFORMATION

  Overview

  Pain medications are vast and many. Surprisingly and yet obviously, the causes of pain are also vast and many. ‘Chronic’ pain refers to pain lasting longer than six months or occurs with a chronic health condition. Examples of chronic pain scenarios include neuropathic, fibromyalgia, rheumatic disease and Lupus, back and joint, migraines, and inflammation. All of these will be discussed in this session. Depending on the cause of pain, it will be managed differently. Some pain medications have inherently more risk than others and understanding these risks is essential to providing the best patient care possible. The purpose of this session is to highlight causes of chronic pain and its differences from acute [short-term] pain, discuss how pain medications augment the sensations of pain both physically and mechanistically, and to address risks associated with all these medications.
  

  Handouts

  • Slide Document :   22143H08_6pp.pdf Download

  • Slide Document :   22143H08_2pp.pdf Download

  Financial Support By

  PharmCon

• Learning OBJECTIVES

  Pharmacy Technician

  Restate chronic pain types and why not all analgesics are universally appropriate

  Differentiate the nature of acute and chronic pain

  Arrange in order the options for treatment for various chronic pain scenarios including neuropathic, fibromyalgia, rheumatic disease and Lupus, back and joint, headaches, and inflammation

• Activity ACCREDITATION

  Activity Type

  Knowledge

  CE Broker

  20-957016

  Universal Activity Number

  Pharmacy Technician 0798-0000-22-143-H08-T
  

  PharmCon is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

  PharmCon is an approved course provider for continuing education for nurses by the Florida Board of Nursing. PharmCon is also recognized by the California Board of Nursing as a provider of nursing programs.

  In order to obtain a Statement of Credit, participants must score no less than a 70% on the activity's test and complete a program evaluation.

• Activity INSTRUCTION

  Faculty

  Ann  Klemz, PharmD, BCPS Pharmacist, Methodist Hospital

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