Multimodal Analgesia | Patient Safety Course

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Availability

On-Demand

Credit Offered

1 Patient Safety Credit

Multimodal analgesia uses combinations of analgesic medications that act in an additive or synergistic manner to achieve pain relief with minimal or no opiate consumption. The goal is to reduce the reliance on opioids for pain management by using medications that act on differing pathways and receptors.

Learning Objectives

After viewing this course, the participant should be able to:

Recall the elements for successful multimodal pain management and the advantages of multimodal analgesia.
Identify differences between pre-emptive, preventive and multimodal analgesia.
Compare the research that has been done on pain management for plastic surgery procedures.
Discuss medication usage, drawbacks and interactions of multimodal analgesia.
Indicate how surgeons unwittingly contribute to the opioid epidemic and what can be done to reduce it.

Content in this course was provided by Deepa Bhat, MD; Heather Faulkner, MD; Michele Manahan, MD; Elisabeth Potter, MD; Gregory Greco, MD; Thomas Fiala, MD; Anureet Bajaj, MD; Karol Gutowski, MD

The following ABMS core competencies will be addressed:

Patient Care
Medical Knowledge

This course is not accredited for AMA PRA Category 1 credit.

This course offers .5 credits identified as applicable to Patient Safety.

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