Women's Health

WH-01 - Got Milk and Pain? Postpartum Pain Management in Breastfeeding Patients

Thursday, September 7, 2023

1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST

Location: Nolita 1-3

CE: Contact Hours: 1 | ANCC RX: 0| AANP RX: 0 | Mate: 0.5

Co-Presenter(s)

Hannah Cawoski, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Addiction Medicine
Center for Inclusion Health - Allegheny Health Network
Pittsburgh, PA
Nathan Menke, MD, PhD, FASAM, FAAEM

Medical Director of Inpatient Addiction Medicine Consult Service, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health, Michigan Medicine
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Slides
Jillian DiClemente, PharmD

Pain Management Clinical Pharmacist Specialist
Department of Pharmacy, University of Michigan Health
University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Course Description: According to the Center for Disease Control, in 2021 there were around 3.66 million births that occurred in the United States alone. As you can imagine even just a small percentage of pregnant people experiencing acute pain postpartum is significant. In this course, two clinical pharmacist specialists in pain management and a board certified addiction medicine physician, will dive into the clinical considerations and evidence based therapeutic strategies for treating acute pain in postpartum patients, including pelvic pain, with an emphasis on those that are breastfeeding. Pharmacologic approaches will be discussed via a series of complex clinical patient cases presented throughout the course. This course will help multidisciplinary team members recognize the importance of appropriately treating pain in postpartum patients who elect to breastfeed and learn to select pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic approaches that are considered safe and effective in this population.

Learning Objectives:

Introduce the prevalence of post-partum pain
Review pharmacologic options for pain management and the impact on breastfeeding
Explain strategies for managing acute postpartum pain in patients who are breastfeeding using case examples