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Coming Around the Bend: The Management of Pain in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease

ACPE Activity Number: 0204-0000-23-088-H08-P
Release Date: 06/03/2023
Expiration Date: 06/03/2025
Activity Type: Knowledge-based
CE Credits:  0.5 contact hour, no partial credit
Activity Fee: Member – Free / Non-Member – Not Available 

Activity Overview 

Pharmacists lack knowledge in the pathophysiology of pain in SCD as well as in the best practices and approaches to treatment for painful episodes and chronic pain syndromes. Pharmacists are not comfortable managing pain in this patient population due to lack of knowledge about etiology and the use of high doses of opioid analgesics and complex regimens. 

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education with Commendation.

These activities were planned to meet the educational needs of any pharmacist practicing who may encounter patients with pain related to SCD either in an inpatient or outpatient setting. 

After participating in this CPE activity, participants should be able to:

  • Give examples of best practices in pain management for patients with sickle cell disease
  • Discuss common challenges to pain management in patients with SCD experiencing acute painful episodes. 

  • Introduction and Announcements 

  • Presentation  

Tanya J. Uritsky, Pharm.D
Opioid Stewardship Coordinator
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Tracy Hagemann, PharmD, FCCP, FPPA
Professor and Associate Dean University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy
Nashville, TN

In accordance with our accreditor’s Standards of Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ASHP requires that all individuals in control of content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if they have had a financial relationship with an ineligible company in any dollar amount in the past 24 months and the educational content that the individual controls is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. 

An ineligible company is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The presence or absence of relevant financial relationships will be disclosed to the activity audience. 

  • No one in control of the content of this activity has a relevant financial relationship (RFR) with an ineligible company. 

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