Palliative Care and End of Life Issues in Long Term Care Facilities This program was presented as a live symposium on November 8, 2001 at Senior Care Pharmacy 2001, the 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists. If you attended the live symposium, you are not eligible to receive continuing pharmaceutical education credit through this program. This program was supported by an unrestricted educational grant from

This program has been approved for 2.0 Contact hours of CPE. Normal certificate processing takes up to two weeks after successful completion of the program test.

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Target Audience
A case management approach for consultant pharmacists which will discuss the legal, ethical and symptom issues in dealing with patients towards the end of life.

 

 

Learning Objectives Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:
	Describe common barriers to effective pain relief in long-term care facilities.
	Identify sentinel events due to unrelieved pain; PRN for persistent pain; acetaminophen and other NSAIDS dose limits and toxicity.
	Recognize inappropriate prescribing/administration of meds to due to outdated concerns and ideas.
	Describe current drugs, delivery systems and non-drug delivery intervention and methods to maximize effect on pain management in the elderly.
	Discuss strategies to change clinical practice for effective pain control in long-term care facilities.

Agenda Introduction and Welcome Remarks - Program Chair James W. Cooper, RPh, BCPS, CGP, FASCP, FASHP
	Professor of Clinical Administrative Sciences, Consultant Pharmacist, Honors, Graduate and Gerontology Faculties College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine Athens, Georgia

Undertreatment of Pain in the Long Term Palliative Care Setting Kerry W. Cranmer, MD, CMD
	Instructor of Geriatrics for Great Plains Family Practice Residency Program Chair, Hospice and Palliative Subsection of AMDA, Founder and President of Oklahoma Chapter of AMDA Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Pharmacotherapeutic Management of Pain: Special Considerations in the Older Adult Manju T. Beier, PharmD, FASCP
	Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy, University of Michigan and President Geriatric Consultant Resources LLC Ann Arbor, Michigan

Commonly Used Medications: What Works, What Doesn't
James W. Cooper, PhD, BCPS, CGP, FASCP, FASHP

The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists is approved by the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education as a provider of continuing pharmaceutical education. This program is approved for 2.0 contact hours (0.2 CEUs) of continuing pharmaceutical education credit and will be awarded based on satisfactory completion with a score of 70% or higher on the post-assessment examination. ACPE Universal Program #203-999-02-953-H01. Reminder: If you attended the live symposium, you are not eligible to receive continuing pharmaceutical education credit through this program. Program Date: November 8, 2001 in Chicago, Illinois. This program is valid through February 26, 2005.

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