Opioids: friends or Foe - Updates on the clinical conundrum
Learning Objectives
Illustrate an understanding that facilitates skilful and safe management of opioid therapy.
Illustrate an understanding of new analgesic and nonanalgesic agents, so as to appreciate their role in providing multimodal analgesia.
Identify behaviours that may exacerbate and perpetuate pain and have an effective plan for management.
Effectively plan and execute multidisciplinary management for a patient with complex biopsychosocial pain.
Differentiate causes for pain syndromes such as a headache and back pain to allow better formulation of therapy.