Effective Pediatric Pain Management and End of Life Care 2021

Saturday, March 6, 2021, 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM

Many of the concepts and treatment strategies of pediatric pain have changed. Children can respond to, and remember painful experiences similar to adults, and while predictable pain problems are now more reliably treated, a gap still exists in assessing and managing chronic pediatric pain, making children’s pain chronically under-treated. Several clinical studies have demonstrated the deleterious effects from not providing adequate pain control in children. Consequently, adequate pain assessment and management requires special effort in terms of careful assessment, communication, patient education, appreciation of exceptions, and modification of therapies.

The Effective Pediatric Pain Management and End of Life Care course is designed for clinicians in the primary or sub-specialty care setting who may identify and treat pediatric patients with various painful conditions and provide end of life care.

Course Format

This years course will be fully digital and be presented online, via Zoom. 

The live conference will be recorded, and content will be available to registered attendees for two weeks following the meeting. 

Target Audience

• Physicians 
• Physician Assistants
• Nurse Practitioners
• Nurses 

1. Understand the fundamental basic pain mechanisms.
2. Evaluate available opioid and non-opioid options to treat pediatric pain.
3. Review the current laws pertaining to prescribing opioids and proper storage and disposal of prescription medicines.
4. Recognize patients at high risk for substance abuse.
5. Select patients for behavioral pain therapy.
6. Assess complementary pain treatment options.
7. Incorporate best practices for management of pediatric palliative care.
8. Identify ethical challenges in end-of-life care and develop strategies to address them in practice.
9. Acquire the tools working with loss and grief.

• Registration Fee: $175
• Medical Staff Organization members of Boston Children’s are invited as guests. Please contact CMEdepartment@childrens.harvard.edu to receive the registration code.

Refund & Registration Policy

Upon receipt of your paid registration, an email confirmation from the Boston Children’s office will be sent to you. Be sure to include an email address that you check frequently. Your email address is used for critical information, including registration confirmation, evaluation and certificate. Fifty-percent (50%) refunds will be issued for all cancellations received prior to the start of the course. Refund requests must be received by postal mail, email or telephone. “No shows” are subject to the full course fee, and no refunds will be issued once the conference has started.

Course Access 

An email will be sent to all registered course participants a few days prior to start of the program that contains instructions to access the course. This email will be sent from cmedepartment@childrens.harvard.edu to the email address you used to register for the conference. 

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children's Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

AAPA accepts AMA category 1 credit for the PRA from organizations accredited by ACCME.
 

Nurse
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 5.0 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 


Physician Assistants
Boston Children’s Hospital has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credits for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 5.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

 
Risk Management
This activity meets the requirements for 5.0 Risk Management Credits as proscribed by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and defined in 243 CMR 2.06(5)(d) I. Please check your individual state licensing board requirements before claiming these credits.

Disclosure policy
Boston Children's Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children's may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

CME - AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (5.00 hours), Non-Physician (Attendance) (5.00 hours), CNE (Nursing) (5.00 hours), PA (Physician Assistant) (0.00 hours), Risk Management (5.00 hours), NP: CME Credit (5.00 hours), PA: CME Credit (5.00 hours), American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) PA Credits (5.00 hours)

Saturday, March 6, 2021