VIDEOS
Enhance your learning experience with our specially created videos that complement and enrich the core curriculum. These short videos provide insights and practical applications, ensuring a more comprehensive understanding of pain management and opioid prescribing practices.
Opioid Equianalgesic Dosing Example
This video provides a comprehensive example of opioid equianalgesic dosing, demonstrating how to accurately calculate and convert dosages between different opioid medications. It serves as a practical guide for healthcare professionals, ensuring safe and effective pain management through precise dosing adjustments.
Difference Between Physical Dependence and Addiction
This video clarifies the critical distinctions between physical dependence and addiction to opioids, following the 4 Cs framework: Compulsion, Control, Continued use despite harm, and Craving. It provides an understanding of each condition, helping healthcare professionals recognize and address these issues appropriately in their clinical practice.
Kathleen’s Chronic Pain Journey
Kathleen shares her personal story of living with chronic pain. She discusses her reluctance to rely on pain medication and the severe consequences she faces when she doesn’t take it, often resulting in emergency room visits. Kathleen explains the stigma she encounters from doctors and pharmacists. Her story emphasizes the need for people with chronic pain to be treated with respect and compassion.
Medical Marijuana for Pain Management
A common question during our CO*RE educational meetings is about the use of medical marijuana for pain management. In this video, we discuss the importance of being familiar with the laws in your state and the need for caution when discussing medical marijuana with your patient.
Treating OUD with Buprenorphine
A healthcare clinician shares her experience of integrating buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) into her emergency room practice. In response to the urgent healthcare crisis, she emphasizes the importance of all primary care clinicians to receive similar training to effectively treat individuals with OUD.
Guiding Patient Expectations in Pain Management
This video highlights the importance of guiding patient expectations through shared decision-making. It introduces the SHARE approach, which involves:
- Seeking the patient’s participation
- Helping the patient explore treatment options
- Assessing the patient’s values and preferences
- Reaching a decision together
- Evaluating outcomes using functional assessment tools
By implementing this approach, clinicians can better align treatment plans with patient expectations and improve pain management outcomes.
Ordering a Urine Drug Test
It’s important to effectively communicate with patients about ordering a urine drug test. By fostering transparent communication, clinicians can help patients feel more comfortable and cooperative with ordering a screening tests.
How to Communicate with Patients Using an Opioid Risk Tool
Effective communication is crucial when evaluating a patient with pain. This video demonstrates the importance of empathy and compassion in these interactions.
Opioid Use DSM-5-TR Criteria
This video outlines the 11 identified symptoms of opioid use disorder according to the DSM-5-TR. To meet the diagnosis, a patient must exhibit at least two of these criteria within a 12-month period. The video emphasizes the behavioral aspects of the criteria, providing a clear understanding for healthcare professionals.
Motivational Interviewing Video
Enhance your communication skills and patient interactions with these proven strategies. Key points covered include:
- Listening to the Patient: Understanding their perspective and fostering a supportive environment.
- Asking Permission: Respectfully engaging with patients by seeking their consent before discussing changes.
- Elicit-Provide-Elicit Technique: Drawing out the patient’s thoughts, offering relevant information, and then eliciting their reactions and insights.
- Patient Sets the Agenda: Empowering patients by allowing them to guide the discussion based on their priorities.
- What Others Do: Using examples of how others have successfully managed similar situations to motivate and inspire.
Opioid Therapy Beyond 2 Weeks
Considerations for patients requiring opioid therapy beyond two weeks. Implementing a clear tapering strategy and disposal of unused opioid to prevent misuse and ensure safety.
Video Series: Addressing System, Institutional, and Language Barriers
The three-part series delves into the systemic and institutional barriers, as well as the language used when discussing people with substance use disorders. While individual clinicians may be ready for change, the larger system often lags behind. The series emphasizes the importance of finding small opportunities for victory and identifying a champion who can help you with change.