Curriculum Block

Objectives

• Describe the fundamentals of nociceptive pathways including the perception of pain, effects on the individual, how they are regulated within the individual and might evolve from the acute to the chronic setting.
• Explain how targeted pharmacotherapy, behavioural therapy, and reactivation can be applied to manage pain.
• Describe the basic pharmacology of Opioid Analgesics, and the basic analgesic properties of Tricyclic Antidepressants, Selective Serotonin and Norepinephrine Re-uptake Inhibitors (SNRIs), Gabapentinoids and Cannabinoids.
• Identify other pharmacotherapeutic options such as corticosteroids, local anesthetics, Ketamine, anticonvulsants.
• Explain the potential use of regional analgesia or other medical procedures in select circumstances.

• Describe chronic pain in a biopsychosocial framework which recognizes nociceptive, neuropathic, cognitive-perceptual, brain and behaviour and socio-environmental factors.

Assessments

• IF CAE 2

Tags

Pharmacology Therapy Complexity and Chronicity Integration Foundation Part 5 IF Anesthesiology Pharmacology Back Pain and Related Symptoms (e.g., Sciatica) Central / Peripheral Neuropathic Pain Generalized Pain Disorders Prescribing Practices 2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations. 2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare 4.4 Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions, including the ability to manage one’s own interpersonal responses 6.1 Understand the systems of healthcare, including federal, provincial, municipal and local, and the influences they have on the health of individuals and populations Analgesics, Opioid [D27.505.696.663.850.014.520] Acute Pain [C23.888.646.115] Analgesia [E03.091] Analgesics, Opioid [D27.505.954.427.040.325] Analgesics, Opioid [D27.505.954.427.210.049] Cannabis [B06.388.100.175.500] Chronic Pain [C23.888.592.612.274] Drug Therapy [E02.319] Nociceptive Pain [C23.888.646.511] Pain Management [E02.745] Pain Management [N04.590.607.500] Pain [C10.597.617] Pain [C23.888.592.612] Pain [C23.888.646] Pain [F02.830.816.444]