*7.5 Contact Hours* Pediatric pain is a challenging topic. The 2021 edition of PNCB’s popular annual pharmacology module focuses exclusively on pain management across multiple settings and patient populations. Be prepared to elevate your knowledge with a deep dive into content involving neonates, headaches, chronic pain, procedural pain in primary care, and athletes. Select opioid topics include post-op prescribing and potential for abuse as well as prescribing for special populations and pediatric acute pain. Topics include:
- Postoperative opioid prescribing and the opioid crisis
- Opioids in managing pediatric acute pain
- Opioid prescribing in select populations
- Children and youth with special health care needs
- Children and adolescents without severe health conditions
- Pain management for procedures in primary care
- A literature review of pain management for pediatric/adolescent athletes
- Management of headache pain including post-traumatic and migraine
- Treatment of children with chronic pain in the ED
- Neonatal pain management
- Non-analgesic uses of NSAIDs for neonates
