This session, recorded on 5/8/2020, will describe the recent advances in treatment for severe asthma. Faculty will use patient case examples to describe a systematic approach for assessing patients with difficult-to-control asthma and review the stepwise treatment of asthma. They will also discuss how primary care clinicians can help to identify patients in their practice who would benefit from further subtyping of their asthma and treatment with biologic therapies. Please note that any data, indications, and guidelines presented in this activity are current as of the recording on 5/8/2020 and they are subject to change as new information is published.

Treating chronic pain in older individuals and balancing analgesia and adverse effects in this population, which is often afflicted with multiple comorbidities, is challenging. This program reviews the assessment and nonpharmacologic treatment of chronic pain in patients aged 65 years and older. This activity is supported by an independent educational grant from the Opioid Analgesic REMS Program Companies. Please see https://ce.opioidanalgesicrems.com/RpcCEUI/rems/pdf/resources/List_of_RPC_Companies.pdf for a listing of REMS Program Companies. This activity is intended to be fully compliant with the Opioid Analgesic REMS education requirements issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

This activity will discuss the epidemiology and pathophysiology of acute and chronic pain, patient assessment, assessment of risk for opioid-related aberrant behaviors, nonpharmacologic approaches to pain management, and non-opioid analgesics. Please note that any data, indications, and guidelines presented in this activity are current as of the recording on 3/19/2020 and they are subject to change as new information is published.

During this podcast, Dr. Diana Isaacs will give an in-depth review of the currently available pharmacologic options for the treatment of severe hypoglycemia. She will explain their differences and highlight shared decision-making strategies clinicians can employ during patient encounters to select therapies for the treatment of severe hypoglycemia. Please note that any data, indications, and guidelines presented in this activity are current as of the recording on 05/08/2020 and they are subject to change as new information is published.

In the tenth episode of Pri-Med’s weekly web series on COVID-19, faculty will discuss cardiovascular issues related to COVID-19. They will review the relationship between inflammation and cardiac complications in COVID-19 and discuss the potential acute cardiac consequences of COVID-19; lastly, they will describe strategies for evaluating patients with cardiac consequences of COVID-19. Please note that any data, indications, and guidelines presented in this activity are current as of the recording on 6/2/2020 and they are subject to change as new information is published.

This activity will review the general principles of opioid prescribing, key concepts including misuse, abuse, tolerance, physical dependence, opioid use disorder, adverse effects and metabolism of opioids, and instructions for safe storage and disposal. Please note that any data, indications, and guidelines presented in this activity are current as of the recording on 3/19/2020 and they are subject to change as new information is published.

This activity will discuss initiating opioids in acute and chronic pain, long term management of patients on opioid therapy, patient counseling, and fundamentals of addiction medicine. Please note that any data, indications, and guidelines presented in this activity are current as of the recording on 3/19/2020 and they are subject to change as new information is published.