Perioperative Pain Management & Care Coordination- Surgeon: Module 1

Friday, April 29, 2022, 12:00 AM - Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 5:00 PM


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.25 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (1.25 hours), Pain and Symptom Management (1.25 hours)

This education will empower clinicians to impact the opioid epidemic by learning and implementing best-practice care management during the perioperative period. The combined modules satisfy Michigan's licensure requirements of 3 hours of pain and symptom management (CME) credits. Participants use their knowledge to assess the risk factors of opioid use for acute care patients. Every learner will improve their coordination practices.

1. Describe the role of acute care prescribing in the current U.S. opioid epidemic.
2. List the risk factors of opioid use for acute care patients.
3. Detect the factors that influence acute care opioid prescribing.

AMA PRA Category 1  
The University of Michigan Medical School designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 3 credits AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

For questions or concerns, please contact:

• Elizabeth Seese
• Emily McKanna

Bibliographic Resources

• Brummett CM et al. New Persistent Opioid Use After Minor and Major Surgical Procedures in US Adults. JAMA Surgery. 2017; 152(6).
• Howard, R et al. Association of Opioid Prescribing with Opioid Consumption After Surgery in Michigan. JAMA Surgery. 2017; 152(6).
• Waljee, J et al. Iatrogenic Opioid Dependence in the United States: Are Surgeons the Gatekeepers? Annals of Surgery. 2017; 265: 728-30.
• Lagisetty et al. Care Coordination for Patients on Chronic Opioid Therapy Following Surgery: A Cohort Study. Annals of Surgery; March 2019. DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003235
• Klueh et al. Transitions of Care for Postoperative Opioid Prescribing in Previously Opioid-Naïve Patients in the USA: A Retrospective Review. 2018. J Gen Intern Med 33(10):1685–91.
• Lamvu et al. Perioperative pain management: an update for obstetrician-gynecologists. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Feb 2018; 193-99.

Educational Planning Team

• Educational Planner Jennifer E F Waljee, MD
• Co-Planners Mark C Bicket, MD, PhD and Chad M Brummett, MD
• Presenter Jennifer E F Waljee, MD
• Activity Coordinators Emily McKanna and Elizabeth Seese, MS, CCRC

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

The University of Michigan Medical School adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities. 

None of the planners or presenters  for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.