UCL (University College London)
- Start Date: 29 Jan, 2024
- 3 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Gain a practical approach to perioperative opioid stewardship to minimise harms from opioids prescribed at the time of surgery.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Discover how efficacy and likelihood of harm of opioids differ between patients.
Opioids play an important role in facilitating recovery and return to function after surgery. However, it is now well-established that surgery is a risk factor for persistent postoperative opioid use.
On this three-week course, you’ll explore the key concepts of opioid stewardship. You’ll learn how to minimise the risks associated with opioid use around the time of surgery whilst allowing safe administration to patients who are most likely to benefit from them.
Understand the use of opioids in the perioperative setting
You’ll examine the causes of the world-wide opioid crisis.
This will help you understand the challenges of balancing the benefits of opioids against the risks of prescribed opioid-related harm. You’ll also discuss inadequate perioperative pain management leading to poor patient outcomes.
Learn about opioid pharmacology
You’ll learn about the mechanisms of opioid tolerance and dependence, opioid use disorder and non-opioid responsive pain, as well as persistent postoperative opioid use.
You’ll also explore the different properties of opioid drugs that are responsible for both their desired analgesic actions and the adverse drug-related patient outcomes we try to avoid.
Improve the use of opioids in your setting
Through the concept of opioid stewardship, you’ll learn how to promote appropriate safe opioid prescribing and minimise adverse drug events and persistent postoperative opioid use.
You’ll discuss practical strategies including opioid-free and opioid-sparing anaesthesia and analgesia.
Learn with pain management experts at UCL
Throughout the course, you’ll learn from experts at University College London (UCL) and the University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Pain Management Centre, Complex Pain Team and Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine.
This course is for all members of the multidisciplinary team involved in providing pain relief for patients who are having, or have had, surgery. This includes an international audience of:
Doctors, nurses and physician associates providing anaesthesia, surgical or perioperative care
Nurses and specialists caring for patients recovering from surgery in the Recovery room, Post-Anaesthetic Care Unit, Critical Care Unit and on surgical wards
Specialist pain nurses
General practitioners
Physiotherapists, clinical psychologists, chiropractors, osteopaths and other allied health professionals with an interest in pain medicine
Students who are still training in these individual professions
Healthcare professionals might find the Certificate of Achievement for this course useful for providing evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) or commitment to their career.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
UCL (University College London)
UCL was founded in 1826. It was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to open up university education to those previously excluded from it, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine.
UCL is among the world’s top universities, as reflected by performance in a range of international rankings and tables. UCL currently has over 35,000 students from 150 countries and over 11,000 staff. UCL’s annual income is more than £1 billion.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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