Monday, September 10, 2018

PainWeek 2018 WOW

PainWeek 2018

I was lucky enough to spent several days at PainWeek 2018 and it was amazing. Pain specialists from all over the US and the world came together in Las Vegas to share their knowledge and experience.

Over 2000 physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other health care providers came together to share the best ways to provide pain relief for patients while lowering overdoses.

It's going to take me a few days to process and share what I learned in the CME courses. I hope what I learned can help other patients, physicians, and families understand the changes in pain management.

NADDI the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators had maintained a training partnership with PainWeek for the preceding seven years, but choose not to attend this year. With all the changes in opioid guidelines, rules, regulations, and laws I was surprised NADDI choose not to assist physicians in understand the new changes. 

I was also surprised that with all the misunderstandings and confusion physicians in Arizona have about the CDC Guidelines and Arizona's Opioid Epidemic Act, I didn't see one pain management physicians from Mohave County at PainWeek.

Conferences like PainWeek give pain management physicians and other health care providers who treat pain the opportunity to receive continuing medical education credits known as CME's while learning the latest in pain management techniques.

More on PainWeek soon..........






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