Pain Management in Primary Care (Ethics/Risk Management)

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This presentation will describe options in traditional medications for pain such as different forms of buprenorphine in chronic pain conditions. How to adjust medications in the older populations and what medications could be used instead of traditional schedule II opioids. Their mechanisms and how to start them. Interventional options for peripheral neuralgia and osteoarthritic conditions that have, in the past, been treated with opioid medications.

Upon completion of this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Appropriate opioid management
• Options to minimize the schedule II medications for chronic pain
• Interventional options that treat chronic pain conditions that were traditionally treated with opioid medication.