Applied Pain Pharmacotherapy

Catalog description

Credits 2. 2 Lecture Hours. This elective course focuses on pharmacotherapy of chronic pain states. The emphasis is on practical aspects of pain management such as effective and safe analgesic dose rotation and conversion, tailoring and individualizing therapy with analgesics, management of adverse events, documentation, and patient counseling. Problem-solving is based on various pain case studies. Elective course. Offered: Spring semester. Prerequisite: IPT IV.