Managing pain: Focus on Osteoarthritis and Post-herpetic Neuralgia – Mainpro+

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Mainpro+

English

1 Credits

Course Description

Course Details

Expiry Date: 2014-09-26

Professions: Physician

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Learning Objective(s)

  1. Describe some of the differences between acute and chronic pain
  2. Identify patients having early symptoms of or at risk for osteoarthritis (OA)
  3. Discuss non-drug and drug treatment approaches to managing hand, knee or hip OA
  4. Describe the roles of multi-disciplinary team members in managing OA
  5. Describe the etiology of, risk factors for and complications related to Herpes Zoster (HZ) infection
  6. Discuss a treatment approach for HZ including prevention, the role of antiviral therapy and pain management for post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN)