Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
UCL (University College London)
You have learnt about opioid pharmacology and explored the key concepts of opioid stewardship, learning how to minimise the risks associated with opioid use around the time of surgery, whilst allowing their safe administration to those patients most likely to benefit from them.
3 weeks, 5 hours per week
Dr Fausto Morell-Ducos
MOOC Lead Educator, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine
UCL (University College London)
Dr Jamie Smart
MOOC Lead Educator, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine
UCL (University College London)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the reasons for persistent postoperative opioid use and its contribution to the development of the international opioid epidemic.
- Engage in a discussion on global variation in perioperative opioid use with healthcare professionals from around the world.
- Justify the reasons for using different opioid and non-opioid analgesics for the management of acute pain in the perioperative setting.
- Summarise the basic pharmacology of opioids and the mechanisms associated with their therapeutic and harmful effects.
- Evaluate the component parts of opioid stewardship which are aimed at reducing persistent postoperative opioid use and its subsequent harms.
- Reflect upon the challenges of managing perioperative pain in patients with opioid tolerance and/or dependence.
Syllabus
- Origins of the prescribed opioid epidemic
- International variation in opioid prescribing practices
- Advantages and disadvantages of using opioids for pain management around the time of surgery
- Opioid pharmacology
- Challenges of avoiding persistent postoperative opioid use and iatrogenic opioid-related harm
- Opioid-free anaesthesia and analgesia
- Opioid stewardship and examples for improving practice
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Issued on 13th March 2024
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