Pain management can be difficult not only for patients, but for the provider as well. This session will review the basics of pain: physical, emotional, and spiritual. The faculty will offer a step-wise approach for managing pain in the non-surgical adult patient which will include pharmacologic therapies, non-pharmacologic therapies, complementary/alternative medicine therapies, and interventional therapies. By the end of the session, PAs will be eager to play a pivotal role in helping patients through a difficult, and often distressing, symptom.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:
Describe different types of pain
Explain best practices for starting opioids and titration of opioids in non-surgical pain in adult patients
Explain best practices of when/how to de-prescribe opioids in non-surgical pain in adult patients
Discuss the role of adjunctive and non-pharmacologic therapies in non-surgical pain in adult patients
Discuss the roles of implantable devices and interventional alternatives in non-surgical pain in adult patients
