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Managing Persistent Pain in the Older Patient: Effective Strategies for Clinical Practice
Dinner Dialogue series worth 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. A series of ten dinner dialogues held nationwide offering practical and innovative tools in assessing and managing pain in the older population. These programs feature three case studies and utilize an audience response system to encourage ongoing interaction between the audience and the expert faculty.
Optimizing Pain Management in the Older Patient
Are you interested to learn more about managing your older patients’ pain and comorbid conditions safely and effectively? Register today, to hear our expert faculty guide you through two challenging case studies in this newly designed, cme/ce-certified peer reviewed curriculum. Earn 1.0 CME/CE Credit!
Pain Management Today
Read the latest issue of Pain Management Today and receive .75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.   The first article discusses opioid rotation, conversion, and titration and how to handle the need for escalating doses when tolerance or disease progression cause efficacy to wane.  The second article focuses on the challenges faced by clinicians in recognizing which patients are most at risk for abusing opioids.
Webcast on Opioid Analgesia
Listen to a webcast from the successful National Initiative on Pain Control DINNER DIALOGUES® series entitled: Advances in Opioid Analgesia: Evolving Strategies to Manage Chronic Pain and receive 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
On-Demand Activities
Three interactive, case-based activities, originally posted on LegDisorders.org, are now featured here! Participate today and earn instant AMA PRA Category 1 Credit.
Downloadable Slides on Rotation, Titration, and Conversion
Visit the Dynamic Slide Library to access downloadable slides on how to optimize opioid therapy through rotation, titration, and conversion. An opioid conversion calculator to determine equianalgesic values is included. Create your own presentations, download slides onto your computer, or share them with a colleague!

Slides of the Month
 

  slide Opioid Titration
Titration of the opioid dose is often necessary at the start of a new therapy and repe...
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  slide Opioid Titration Protocol
The titration of an opioid analgesic should be made, if needed, 3 days after the initi...
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  slide Opioid Conversion
Long-acting opioids have greater utility than short-acting opioids in treating chronic...
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  slide Opioid Rotation
Opioid rotation refers to the switching from one opioid to another when the degree of ...
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  slide Mu-agonist Dose Chart*
The clinical benefits of opioid rotation have focused attention on efficacy difference...
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  slide Opioid Conversion Calculator
An example of an opioid conversion: patient previously using MS Contin is switched to ...
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  slide Analgesic Equivalence Calculation
The analgesic equivalence conversion should take into account individual patient chara...
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  slide Rotating From Morphine to Oxymorphone ER
This is an example of calculating the equianalgesic dose for rotating a patient from m...
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  slide Rotating From Morphine to Transdermal Fentanyl
This is an example of calculating the equianalgesic dose for rotating a patient from m...
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  slide Fentanyl Buccal Tablet for BTP in Opioid-Tolerant Patients
This study, supported by Cephalon Inc., evaluated the analgesic efficacy and tolerabil...
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  slide Fentanyl Buccal Tablet for BTP Results: Change in Mean PID Score
Of 102 patients in the open-label titration period, 79 entered the double-blind phase....
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  slide Fentanyl Buccal Tablet for BTP: Conclusions
In these opioid-tolerant patients with chronic neuropathic pain who were titrated to a...
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In the News
PAION Announces Successful Completion Of Phase I Study With The Sedative/Anaesthetic CNS 7056
Nov 19, 2008 -- The biopharmaceutical company PAION AG (ISIN DE000A0B65S3; Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Prime Standard: PA8; London AIM: PAI) today announces that it has successfully completed a Phase I study with its intravenous sedative/anaesthetic CNS 7056. The study was completed ahead of schedule because the target criterion, more than 50% of the volunteers reaching loss of consciousness for more than 5 minutes, was reached in the 9th of the 10 planned cohorts.
Patients Experienced Nearly A 70% Reduction In Pain When Using MPM Medical's Regenecare Wound Care Gel
Nov 19, 2008 -- A recent clinical study found that patients experienced nearly a 70% reduction in pain when MPM Medical Inc.'s Regenecare HA® hydrogel was used prior to and during the changing of their wound dressings. The finding comes at a time when a cross-section of American thought leaders are calling the lack of proper pain management a national healthcare crisis. In answer, members of Congress have united to sponsor the National Pain Care Policy Act of 2008 (H.R.
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