Anesthesiology

P.A.C.T.: Practical Approaches to Comprehensive Treatment of Pain

P.A.C.T.: Practical Approaches to Comprehensive Treatment of Pain curriculum focuses on improving clinicians’ ability to recognize, diagnose, and classify pain; educating clinicians on the full spectrum of pain management options, including non-opioid pharmacologic interventions; and providing risk reduction strategies through…

IV Infiltration and Extravasation 2023

Peripheral intravenous (PIV) catheter insertion is the most common invasive hospital procedure performed worldwide, 50 percent of IVs will fail, with 23 percent of those failures due to infiltrations. The malpositioned IV presents a challenging and underreported problem for the…

Infection Control and Prevention 2023

Hospital-acquired infections affect two million hospitalized patients each year and contribute to the death of 90,000 annually. There is growing evidence that many of these hospitals acquired infections are originating in the operating room and anesthesia workspace. It is the…

ASAM Review Course

BEST users are generally preparing for the ABPM or AOA certification examinations. As such, they are seeking a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of addiction medicine in order to improve their outcomes on the examination. The BEST seeks to meet practice…

The ASAM Criteria Online Foundations Course

Welcome to The ASAM Criteria interactive hybrid asynchronous Online Course designed to help beginner, intermediate, and advanced counselors, social workers, administrators, and other clinical staff develop patient-centered service plans and make objective decisions about patient admission, continuing care, and transfer/discharge…

The ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course

The ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course provides eight hours of required education to qualify for the waiver to prescribe buprenorphine in an office-based setting and covers essential information for providers to identify, assess, diagnose, and manage patients with…

Surgical Safety Checklists: Detecting Barriers, Maximizing Benefits

Many studies show using a surgical safety checklist improves surgical outcomes. In one survey of clinicians, over 90% of respondents said they would want a checklist used if they were undergoing surgery. However, researchers have recently identified poor checklist compliance…

ACP Pain Management 7 – Opioid Use Disorder

Chronic pain affects over 50 million people in the US and 1.5 billion world-wide. This is the seventh of a series of 9 interactive modules on Pain Management; 7 didactic modules and 2 modules of case studies. Using current evidence-based…