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2/17/2022 Anesthesiology Grand Rounds -Power of Placebo: The Translational Opportunities of Endogenous Analgesia

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INTRODUCTION

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: 

  • Review placebo analgesia and its mechanisms
  • Recognize the impact of expectations & prior experience on the clinical management of pain
  • Improve pain management by maximizing placebo and minimizing nocebo effects

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

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 Credit™. 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.


Suggested Additional Reading

  • Alter, B. J., M. S. Aung, I. A. Strigo and H. L. Fields (2020). "Onset hyperalgesia and offset analgesia: Transient increases or decreases of noxious thermal stimulus intensity robustly modulate subsequent perceived pain intensity." PLoS One 15(12): e0231124.
  • Alter, B. J., N. P. Anderson, A. G. Gillman, Q. Yin, J. H. Jeong and A. D. Wasan (2021). "Hierarchical clustering by patient-reported pain distribution alone identifies distinct chronic pain subgroups differing by pain intensity, quality, and clinical outcomes." PLoS One 16(8): e0254862.
  • Alter, B., H. Santosa, Q. H. Nguyen, T. J. Huppert and A. D. Wasan (2022). "Offset analgesia is associated with opposing modulation of medial versus dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activations: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study." Mol Pain: 17448069221074991.
  • Wager, T. D. and L. Y. Atlas (2015). "The neuroscience of placebo effects: connecting context, learning and health." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 16: 403-418.
  • Flowers, K. M., M. E. Patton, V. J. Hruschak, K. G. Fields, E. Schwartz, J. Zeballos, J. D. Kang, R. R. Edwards, T. J. Kaptchuk and K. L. Schreiber (2021). "Conditioned open-label placebo for opioid reduction after spine surgery: a randomized controlled trial." Pain 162(6): 1828-1839

Authors:
Ben Alter, MD, PhD — Assistant Professor
Director, Translational Pain Research, Division of Pain Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
No planners, 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 to disclose.
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™

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