Multimodal Approach to Pain Control
CE Information
1.0 CME creditCompletion Time
1 hourAvailable Until
March 7, 2026Posted By
Arkansas Academy of Physician Assistants
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Specialties
Addiction Medicine, Family Medicine, Pain Management, and Primary CareClinical Topics
PainThere is a very strong medical evidence that the multimodal approach to pain management helps with the decrease of opioid prescribing, and the detrimental side effects. Becoming aware of these concepts would help in the decrease of opioid addiction, diversion, abuse, ultimately overdosing and death. This approach is applicable either in the acute and postoperative pain or chronic pain settings.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the concept of the multimodal or multidisciplinary approach to use less opioids and provide appropriate pain control.
- Describe the MME concept and how to apply it to assess and equianalgesic dosage of the most used opioids.
- Identify the most common pathologies that trigger pain.
- Discuss how low back pain impacts the control of pain and the most common pain generators in this area.
- Decide when to use the different kinds of injections and minimally invasive surgeries to improve the pain status of difficult patients to treat.
Speakers
Julio Olaya, MD, is a board-certified anesthesiologist specializing in pain medicine at Pain Medicine Specialists of Arkansas. He was an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care at SLU School of Medicine, pediatric anesthesiologist, director, and founder of the Pediatric Pain Service at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri from 2013 to 2015. He was an assistant professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the UAMS College of Medicine from 2004 to 2012. Olaya did a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Arkansas Children’s Hospital and a fellowship in pediatric pain management at Cincinnati Children’s. He has been practicing adult pain medicine and spine intervention procedures since 2015. Originally from Mexico, Dr. Olaya completed a medical degree from La Salle University in 1986 and was the sports medicine doctor for the Mexican Tennis Federation from 1990 to 1993. He completed his anesthesiology residency at UAMS in 2003 before joining the UAMS/ACH faculty in 2004.
CE Information
This activity offers 1.0 CME credit to attendees.
Accredited by AAPA.
This activity has been reviewed by the American Academy of Physician Associates Review Panel and is compliant with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 22 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid from 3/26/2025 to 3/7/2026 . PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation. AAPA reference number: CME-2013092.
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- Multimodal Approach to Pain Control (Size: 3.41 MB)
Duration: about 1 hour | Quality: HD
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