Presenter(s): Jason Sawyer, RN-EC, NP-C, BSc N, MN, AP-PMN, Nurse Practitioner, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre 

Target Audience: This webinar is designed for physicians, nurse practitioners or other advanced practice nurses, PAs, and pharmacists.  

Webinar Description: This webinar is geared towards health care providers caring for hospitalized patients with pain and a substance use disorder, with a ‎focus on people with traumatic injuries. This webinar will use a case based approach to outline some of the challenges and complexities of managing pain in trauma patients ‎with a substance use disorder. The primary content will describe a successful analgesic plan and transition to Suboxone in the acute ‎traumatic postoperative period.‎ 

Educational Objectives:

• Outline some of the unique ‎challenges of the post traumatic ‎injury population with substance ‎use disorders
• Describe non-opioid ‎pharmacological interventions for ‎pain management
• Identify several non-analgesic ‎factors that will improve the quality ‎of pain management of this ‎complex population

Support for the Program:
Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI081968 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.