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Managing pain: Focus on Osteoarthritis and Post-herpetic Neuralgia – Mainpro+
DURATION
PROFESSION
Physician
# OF CREDITS
1
ACCREDITATION
Mainpro+
EXPIRY DATE
2014-09-26
Learning objectives
- Describe some of the differences between acute and chronic pain
- Identify patients having early symptoms of or at risk for osteoarthritis (OA)
- Discuss non-drug and drug treatment approaches to managing hand, knee or hip OA
- Describe the roles of multi-disciplinary team members in managing OA
- Describe the etiology of, risk factors for and complications related to Herpes Zoster (HZ) infection
- Discuss a treatment approach for HZ including prevention, the role of antiviral therapy and pain management for post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN)
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