Acute Pain: What Works, What Hurts

Acute Pain: What Works, What Hurts

This training will cover the impact of hyperalgesia and cross tolerance on acute pain among patients with opioid dependence and/or who are on medications for opioid use disorder. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for acute pain management will be discussed. Participants will acquire tools for devising pain-management plans for planned and unanticipated acute pain experiences for patients on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD).

At the end of this training, participants will have the knowledge necessary to:

• Identify the impact of hyperalgesia and cross-tolerance on the acute pain experience with patients on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) or with opioid dependence. 
• Name at least two non-pharmacological and two adjunctive pharmacological treatments for acute pain management.
• Create pain-management care plans for planned acute pain experiences for patients on MOUD.

• Create pain-management care plans for unanticipated acute pain experiences for patients on MOUD.

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