Symposium

SYM-02 - Aching for Improvement: Review of the Gaps and Latest Advances in Osteoarthritis Pain and Other Chronic Pain Management

On-Demand

Location: Castellana

Symposium Speaker(s)

Tim J. Atkinson, PharmD, BCPS, CPE

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Director, PGY2 Pain Management & Palliative Care Residency
Department of Veterans Affairs
Murfeesboro, Tennessee

Slides
Steven P. Stanos, DO

Medical Director, Swedish Health System Pain Medicine and Services
Past President, American Academy of Pain Medicine
Seattle, Washington

Chronic pain, including pain from osteoarthritis (OA), plagues more than half of older adults in the US. To help alleviate this pain, PCPs, NPs, PAs, and pain specialists must be kept up to date with the recommendations for optimal assessment of, goal setting for, and monitoring of patients with OA pain and other chronic pain. This activity, Aching for Improvement: Review of the Gaps and Latest Advances in Osteoarthritis Pain and Other Chronic Pain Management, will help clinicians appropriately tailor pain management plans to their individual patients, including those in special populations, such as the elderly. PCPs, NPs, PAs, and pain specialists will better understand the safety and efficacy profiles of each of the available pain treatment options, along with the unique considerations one must take into account when treating more complex patients.

Accreditation statement:
Jointly Provided by Global Education Group and Rockpointe

Support statement:
This program is supported through an educational grant from Pfizer Inc and Lilly. For further information concerning Lilly grant funding visit lillygrantoffice.com.

Program Overview:
Chronic pain, including pain from osteoarthritis (OA), plagues more than half of older adults in the US. In order to help alleviate this pain, primary care physicians (PCPs), NPs, PAs, and pain specialists must be kept up to date with the recommendations for optimal assessment of, goal setting for, and monitoring of patients with OA pain and other chronic pain.

This activity, Aching for Improvement: Review of the Gaps and Latest Advances in Osteoarthritis Pain and Other Chronic Pain Management, will help clinicians appropriately tailor pain-management plans to their individual patients, including those in special populations, such as the elderly. PCPs, NPs, PAs, and pain specialists will better understand the safety and efficacy profiles of each of the available pain treatment options, along with the unique considerations one must take into account when treating more complex patients.

This program is designed to address ACGME and NAM competencies, including delivering patient-centered care and practicing evidence-based medicine.

CE Credit:
In order to receive credit for this session, you must take the posttest and evaluation post-program at rockpointe.com/OAPain. Please note, this will open up a new page; credit will be issued separately.
Learning Objectives:
Explain how to assess patients with osteoarthritis (OA) pain and other chronic pain using current screening recommendations and tools
Identify available strategies to facilitate optimal goal setting, and monitoring of patients with OA and other chronic pain
Develop effective, personalized OA pain and other chronic pain treatment plans in special populations (e.g. elderly)
Evaluate the safety and efficacy data with novel nerve growth factor (NGF) inhibitors in clinical development for OA pain and other chronic pain