FactFinders CME: Bathing and Swimming After Interventional Spine Procedures

Myth: Patients should wait at least 24 hours prior to bathing or swimming after undergoing a needle-based interventional spine procedure (i.e. epidural steroid injection, intra-articular injection, medial branch block, radiofrequency ablation).

Learn about the facts surrounding this myth and the best practices to support safe performance of interventional pain procedures in your practice.

Credit CME:0.5

Tag(s) Patient Safety

FactFinders CME: Bathing and Swimming After Interventional Spine Procedures

Description

You will be awarded CME credit after you read the FactFinder and complete the post-test. Before submitting the test, there is a review screen for learners to review your answers before submitting each attempt.

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
Jaymin Patel, MD; David C. Miller, MD, MA; and Clark Smith, MD, MPH 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).

Patel, Jaymin: No Financial Relationships to Disclose.
Miller, David C.: No Financial Relationships to Disclose.
Smith, Clark C.: 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 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.

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: 10/2/2018

Date of Activity Expiration: 10/1/2021