Maximizing Safety and Effectiveness When Prescribing Opioids for Pain

Expert Guidance for Effective Management and Appropriate Monitoring of Patients With Pain

In this episode, Andrew Friedman, MD, provides an overview of safe and effective opioid prescribing for patients with pain and walks through key points of opioid prescribing from the initial to final stages. Listen as he discusses development of a treatment plan and opioid selection, followed by tips for medication initiation and acute monitoring. Dr Friedman then expands on managing patients who progress from acute opioid use to subacute use, as well as chronic opioid use. Finally, the risks for overdose and importance of continuous risk assessment are discussed, along with considerations for opioid tapering and the utility of medication-assisted therapy for patients who develop opioid use disorder.

Presenter:

Andrew Friedman, MD
Medical Director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
Director, Spine Clinic and Services
Virginia Mason Health Center
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

This activity is supported by an independent educational grant from the Opioid Analgesic REMS Program Companies. Please see
https://bit.ly/3mgrfb9
for a listing of REMS Program Companies. This activity is intended to be fully compliant with the Opioid Analgesic REMS education requirements issued by the FDA.

Provided by Clinical Care Options, LLC, and in partnership with the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Practicing Clinicians Exchange, and ProCE.

Link to full program:
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