Learn about the facts surrounding this myth and the best practices to support safe performance of interventional pain procedures in your practice.
You will be awarded CME credit after reading the FactFinder and completing a post-test.
CME Credits: 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Price: $24.95 Members; $9.95 Fellows/Residents; $49.95 Non-members
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Identify best practices to ensure patient safety during interventional spine procedures, and
- Cite the evidentiary basis for risk mitigation strategies in the safe performance of interventional pain procedures.
Authors
Clark Smith, MD, MPH, Fred DeFrancesch, MD, and Jaymin Patel, MD on behalf of the Spine Intervention Society’s Patient Safety Committee.
Author
Disclosures
All individuals in control of content have disclosed the
following financial relationships. All of these relationships were reviewed,
and all conflicts of interest have been resolved (C7 SCS 6.1-6.2, 6.5).
Smith, Clark C.: No Financial Relationships to Disclose.
DeFrancesch, Fred:
Stock ownership or investment interest (including stock option grants, equity, warrants) in a commercial interest: Diverse biomedical and pharmaceutical positions.
Service as a consultant, expert witness, speaker, or author with a commercial interest:Speaker: Depomed.
Entertainment and Social Event Courtesies: Dinner/lunch by various pharma.
Advisory committees or review panels: SIS.
Any position in a healthcare, medical, or physician society/association (committee, board, workgroup/taskforce, etc.): SIS.
Service as a consultant, expert witness, speaker, or author: Expert witness, various insurance defense.
Travel Expenses: SIS travel.
Entertainment and Social Event Courtesies: In association with SIS functions.
Patel, Jaymin: No Financial Relationships to Disclose.
Commercial Support
No commercial support
was received for this activity.
Accreditation
Statement
The Spine Intervention
Society (SIS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation Statement
SIS designates this internet enduring material activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1
Credit(s)™. Physicians should
claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in
the activity.
Method of Physician
Participation
Each participant will
read the FactFinder and will answer post-test questions to receive CME credit.
Copyright
Materials presented in
this activity have been made available by the Spine Intervention Society for
educational purposes only. We reserve all rights to such material.
Date of Activity Release: 8/30/2018
Date of Activity Expiration: 8/29/2021