In early 2019, the AAPM Foundation brought
together a panel of pain management experts and patient advocates to develop
clear evidence-informed guidance for healthcare clinicians on the reduction or
elimination of opioids for those who are prescribed them chronically.
At the February 2020 AAPM Annual Meeting, members of that consensus panel
presented key points from their discussions around the care of those on
long-term, high-dose opioids, especially “legacy patients,” methods and ethics
of compassionate management with extensive audience participation, criteria for
maintaining vs. weaning, opioid use “gray zones,” and the role of buprenorphine.
The panel's findings will soon be published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Panelists:
AAPM Foundation Opioid Reduction Consensus Project
Introduction
Charles Argoff, MD
High Dose Patients: Taper
or Maintain?
Ajay Manhapra, MD
What Should Be Done About
Dangerous Combinations
Michael Hooten, MD
When Is Referral Actually
Abandonment?
Mark Sullivan, MD
Continue or Curtail,
Consensual or Coercive: Who Decides?
Ed Covington, MD
How to Taper
Mark Sullivan, MD
Complex Persistent
Dependence
Jane Ballantyne, MD FRCA
Fiscal Responsibility
Versus Duties as Healers
Steven Stanos, DO
A Balancing Act: Tools to
Help Taper
Jennifer Murphy, PhD
Learning Objectives:
- Determine whether and how to reduce opioids.
- Develop and implement a plan for comfortable opioid and sedative reduction.
- Effectively manage those who, despite no opioid use disorder, respond poorly to both opioid escalation and reduction.
Fee: Members - $0, Non-Member - $25
This is a non-CME program.
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