"Pain Management Pearls and Pitfalls: Safe Opioid Prescribing for Patient and Provider"

   Objectives:

  1. Review VA BOM regulations related to opioid prescribing and when to prescribe Narcan; Understand concept of therapeutic duplication
  2. Discuss potential reasons for excessive opioid use: chemical coping, opioid induced hyperalgesia, delirium 
  3. Review POST form and its status as a physician order

Dr Rivet's bio

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Sponsor(s)
Medicine: Surgery
Continuing & Professional Education
Speaker(s)
Emily Rivet, MD, MBA, FACS, FASCRS
Audience
VCU Alumni, VCU Faculty, VCU Health Care Providers, VCU Physicians, Community Based Health Care Providers, Community Based Physicians, School of Medicine