OpiVoid™ MATE Act-required Training

Brought to you by the SAGES QOS Committee and OpiVoid™ Task Force
Activity Chair: Gina Adrales, MD
QOS Committee Chair: Deborah Keller, MD
Task Force Reviewers: Anjali Gresens, MD; Nabajit Choudhury, MD; Julio Flavio Fiore Junior, MSc, PhD

The SAGES OpiVoid™ Educational Activity is an online enduring activity providing 8-hours of MATE Act-required training for DEA-registered surgeons and members of the surgical team on the prevention, recognition, and care of people with substance use disorders including those with concurrent pain and/or medical co-morbidities.

This program is focused on surgical issues related to substance use disorders, effective treatment planning, and pain management and substance misuse.

Release Date: August 1, 2023
Expiration Date: July 31, 2026
Estimated Time of Completion: 8 hours

METHOD OF PARTICIPATION:

TO EARN AMA PRA CATEGORY 1 CREDITS™

• Read this CME Accreditation piece and educational objectives
• Watch the videos and review the written documents
• Complete the course quiz
• Complete the CME Evaluation Form
• A certificate will be provided upon completion of all materials

CME ACCREDITATION:

SAGES is accredited by the Accreditation Council of Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

SAGES designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity was developed to meet the content requirements of the MATE Act.

ABS CONTINUOUS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is SAGES’ responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

DISCLOSURES:

None of the reviewers, planners or staff for this CME activity have any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients, except for the following:

• Julio Flavio Fiore, Jr (reviewer): Merck Canada, Grants/Research (paid to institution)

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated in advance of the activity.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

At the conclusion of this activity, the learner will be able to:

• Review surgery’s role in the opioid epidemic,
• Identify the current state of the opioid epidemic and government response,
• Create a toolkit of non-opioid options for pain management,
• Consider approaches to analgesia that is not dependent on an opioid first strategy,
• Review alternatives to opioid pain medication for surgical patients that will still ensure appropriate pain management.

INCLUDED IN THIS COURSE:

1. Opioid Practice Statement - Web Content
2. Prescribing Guidelines - Web Content
3. Patient Education and Reducing Post-op Opioid Prescriptions - Video
4. Where does it hurt? Seriously – Understanding Pain Receptors and the Pain Response - Video
5. Post-op Pain Management for Chronic Opioid Users - Video
6. Routine Opioid Prescribing is Not Needed After MIS: Fact or Fiction? - Video
7. High Quality Blocks for High Quality Pain Management - Video
8. 2022 Meeting Session: Optimizing the Surgical Patient NOW - Video
9. I Need a New Drug – Opioid Free Alternatives for Multimodal Analgesia - Video
10. The “NOpioid” Project: Successful Implementation of Non-narcotic Post-operative Pain Control - Video
11. Keynote 2020 – Understanding and Responding to an Epidemic of Addiction - Video
12. 2020 Opioid Session - Video
13. Opioid-free Analgesia After Surgery: Where are We? - Video
14. The Opioid Crisis in the US, Maryland, and Baltimore - Video
15. Opioid-sparing in Bariatric Surgery - Video
16. Intraoperative Strategies for Pain-Free MIS - Video
17. The Perfect TAP: How I Do It - Video
18. ERP and Multimodal Analgesia - Video
19. Opioid Free Surgery - Video
20. Opioid Crisis and New Health Care Regulations - Video
21. Opioid Free Colectomy: A Reality that Could Improve Patient and Financial Outcomes in Surgery - Video
22. New Persistent Opioid Use Outcomes Following Bariatric Surgery - Video
23. Perioperative Pain Management for Abdominal Operations - PDF
24. Ten Things Physicians and Patients Should Question - PDF