Course Description: Despite advances in the understanding of pain management for seriously ill patients, pain is often undertreated or refractory to usual pharmacotherapies in this patient population.  Per some estimates, 10-20% of patients with advanced cancer cannot achieve adequate pain control via cancer pain guidelines such as published by the World Health Organization.  Hence, clinicians need to be aware of interventional pain management techniques when usual analgesic treatments fail.  In this module, users can attain 1.0 hours of CME credit after successful completion of the following:

1. Content review of ten Fast Facts and Concepts covering the following topics:
   1. Sympathetic Nerve Blocks
   2. Intrathecal Pumps for Pain Control
   3. Epidural analgesia for seriously ill patients
   4. Radiation therapy for palliation of cancer pain (part 1 and 2)
   5. Radiopharmaceuticals for palliation of cancer pain
   6. Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty
   7. Analgesic effects of Parental lidocaine
   8. Patient controlled analgesia
   9. Palliative Care Uses of Botulinum toxin injections
2. Score of 70% or higher on a 10 question quiz covering this content. (Of note: all relevant information to answer each question should be found in the relevant Fast Fact)
3. Completion of a course evaluation.

Module 1: Fast Facts #66, #67 #85,#92, #97, #98, #116, #180, #202, #324

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