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1/28/2021 Anesthesiology Grand Rounds - Perioperative challenges in special populations of chronic pain patients - Amaresh Vydyanathan, MD

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Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Anesthesiologists and anesthesiologists-in-training and other anesthesia professionals, nurse anesthetists and anesthesia assistants.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Discuss opioid use disorder and medication assisted treatment of opioid use disorder.
  • Evaluate anesthetic challenges with medication assisted treatment of opioid use disorder.
  • Review specific considerations in opioid use disorder patients on naltrexone.
  • Describe the impact of cannabis on periopertive period.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Sponsor Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Ward EW et al., Anesth Analg 127(2): 539-47.
  2. Echevarria-Villalobos M et al., J Clin Anesth ; 57: 41-9.
  3. Alexander JC et al., Proc Bayl Univ Med Ctr; 32(3): 364-71.
  4. Alford DP et al., Ann Intern med; 144(2): 127-34.

Joint Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:
Amaresh Vydyanathan, MD — Associate Professor Anesthesiology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Montefiore Medical Center/ Albert Einstein College of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.