By the completion of this session, the student will be able to:
- Delineate indications for opioid use in acute, chronic and cancer-related pain in adults
- Define tolerance and physical dependence.
- Identify potential benefits, requirements, and contraindications for opioid use
- Compare and contrast the availability of opioids in developed and under-developed countries, identifying specific barriers to accessing improved pain care
- List 3 indications for opioids use and exhibit an appreciation for the suffering that results from scarcity of pain treatments
- Identify characteristics of specific opioids currently in use in their hospital
- Outline methods for monitoring for abuse appropriate to adults and children
- Describe tools for screening for abuse and mis-use, as well as the nature of opioid treatment contracts and the role of urine drug testing
- Recognize common patterns of diversion, as well as mis-use and chemical coping
- Describe the biopsychosocial etiology of chronic pain presentations in patients
- Discuss the impact of chronic pain on patients and other people in their environment
- Verbalize various aspects of an individualized multi-modal treatment plan as based on a patient’s history and examination.
Acknowledgements
Dr. Beth Murinson
Dr. R. Sam Mayer
Dr. Stuart Grossman
Dr. Sabine Kost-Byerly
