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Description
Release Date: April 13, 2020; 6 p.m. CT
Valid Through: December 31, 2021
Format: Didactic, Q&A (75 minutes)
Please Note: Registration is nearing capacity for this live session. The recording for this event will be posted within 2-3 business days.
Target Audience:
This activity was developed to meet the needs of clinicians treating patients
in pain while navigating the COVID-19 healthcare crisis.
Description:
The pandemic of COVID-19 infections is causing substantial disruptions to daily
life around the world and pain practitioners across the globe are affected by
these disruptions while care for their patients with chronic pain.
Pain is inherently subjective, and there is enormous variation in how patients
react to pain and how it is treated, even between physicians who practice the
same subspecialty. Patients with the same pathology can respond dramatically
differently to treatment and react in very different ways to having anticipated
treatment withheld including becoming socially withdrawn, functionally
disabled, and suicidal. Large variations in practices can have long-standing
consequences, such that practices that strictly interpret local recommendations
to limit non-essential care to prevent disease spread can lose patients to less
scrupulous practices that ignore regional ordinances intended to safeguard the
community. For these reasons, there is a strong need for national guidance on
pain management practices during epidemics.
In partnership with the journal Pain Medicine, this session will discuss
new guidelines on interventional pain management in the wake of the COVID-19
healthcare crisis.
Learning Objectives:
1. Review general and specific risk mitigation procedures related to pain
medicine and COVID-19
2. Discuss mechanisms for triaging pain procedures in the current healthcare
environment.
3. Discuss mental health considerations and steps providers can take to protect
their own health.
Continuing Education:
The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) provides a live webinar titled
“Pain Management Best Practices during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Public Health
Crises” and offers continuing medical education (CME) for physicians.
Successful completion requires that participants view the live webinar
presentation in full and complete an online evaluation. Participants receive
their CME certificates after they submit their evaluations online.
Accreditation:
The American Academy of Pain Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation
Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical
education for physicians.
Credit Designation:
The American Academy of Pain Medicine designates this live activity for a
maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only
the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Instructions for Participants:
1) This activity will consist of a didactic presentation accompanied by
Q&A; there is no fee to participate.
2) View the entire presentation.
3) An evaluation must be completed prior
to receipt of your certificate. After completing the activity evaluation, a
statement of credit will be generated and printed on your own at your
convenience.
4) For additional assistance, please
contact the American Academy of Pain Medicine, 8735 W. Higgins Road, Suite 300,
Chicago, IL 60631, 847-375-4731.
Faculty/Planner Disclosures & Policy:
It is the policy of AAPM to plan and implement educational activities in
accordance with the ACCME to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and
scientific rigor. As an ACCME-accredited provider, AAPM may receive commercial
support from industry but does not receive guidance, either nuanced or direct,
on the content of the activity or on who should deliver the content. All
program faculty and planners are required to disclose all financial
relationships they may have or have had within the last 12 months with
commercial interests whose products or services are related to the subject
matter of the presentation. Any real or apparent conflicts of interest must be
resolved prior to the presentation. Faculty are expected to disclose this
information to the audience both verbally and in print (slideshows) at the
beginning of each presentation.
During this unprecedented public health emergency and because there are no current preventive or specific treatments for COVID-19, AAPM reasonably determines that there is no potential for relevant financial relationships and therefore no need to resolve or disclose conflicts.
Faculty:
Steven P. Cohen, MD
Session Director; Planner/Presenter
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Emily H. Hill, PA
Hill and Associates
Wilmington, NC
W. Michael Hooten, MD
Planner/Presenter
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
CDR C. Ryan Phillips, MD
Presenter
Naval Medical Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
Friedhelm Sandbrink, MD
Presenter
Washington VA Medical Center
Washington, DC
Milan P. Stojanovic, MD
Presenter
Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA
VA Boston Healthcare System
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Ajay D. Wasan, MD MSc
Session Moderator; Planner/Presenter
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA
Expert Educational Design:
This educational activity was planned and facilitated by leaders from the
American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) working in conjunction with several
other professional organizations and federal agencies, including the American
Society of Anesthesiologists, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain
Medicine, North American Neuromodulation Society, Spine Intervention Society,
and the World Institute of Pain, as well as the United States Department of
Defense and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. AAPM is the
leading medical association representing physicians committed to advancing the
emerging science and practice of pain medicine. This activity is designed to
improve access to quality, evidenced- based multidisciplinary pain care across
the healthcare continuum.
Privacy:
To view the AAPM Privacy Policy, visit: https://painmed.org/privacy-policy
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