CME Information
To receive your CME certificate:
- Access the Evaluation and Credit Claim Form by May 3.
- Complete the anonymous evaluation.
- Indicate the number of hours you attended (credit will be verified against registration).
- Your certificate will be sent to the email address provided approximately 3 weeks after submission closes.
- Thank you for your feedback!
Educational objectives
Upon completion of this learning activity, participants should be able to:
- Apply point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) techniques, including gastric ultrasound, hemodynamic assessments, and perioperative fluid management, to enhance regional anesthesia practice.
- Analyze the impact of regional anesthesia on post-surgical pain, functional recovery, and cancer outcomes to optimize patient care strategies.
- Utilize artificial intelligence applications to improve decision-making and procedural accuracy in regional anesthesia and pain medicine.
- Interpret the latest ASRA Pain Medicine guidelines on infection control, anticoagulation, buprenorphine, and cannabis use to ensure adherence to evidence-based practices.
- Evaluate cutting-edge techniques such as neuraxial ultrasound, cryoneurolysis, and neurostimulation for their potential role in modern regional anesthesia and acute pain management.
- Critique current debates on opioid-free anesthesia, local anesthetic combinations, and spinal anesthesia techniques to make informed clinical decisions.
- Demonstrate advanced regional anesthesia techniques, including ultrasound-guided fascial plane blocks and perioperative ultrasound applications, to improve patient outcomes.
Target audience
This ASRA Pain Medicine CME program provides educational activities to physicians, residents, fellows, and scientists. ASRA Pain Medicine supports a multidisciplinary and interprofessional approach to continuing education and patient care by also providing relevant education for other healthcare professionals not directly engaging in interventional regional anesthesia and/or pain medicine procedures. ASRA Pain Medicine offers learning opportunities to the national and international healthcare community.
Accreditation and credit designation statements
| Credits by Day | Maximum |
| Thursday | 7.00 |
| Friday | 6.75 |
| Saturday | 8.00 |
| Total Credits | 21.75 |
Physicians
The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine designates this as a Live Course for a maximum of 21.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™ Physicians should claim only the credit
commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
PAs (Physician Assistants)
AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 21.75 hours of Category 1 credit for completing this program.
Nurse Practitioners
The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. This activity has been approved for a maximum of 21.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Registered Nurses
Regulations dictate that only physicians may earn CME credits; however, many state Boards of Registered Nursing accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. Attendees
are responsible for confirming their specific board’s acceptance of ASRA Pain Medicine-provided credits. This activity has been approved for a maximum of 21.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™
The American Board of Anesthesiology® MOCA®
Part 2 Patient Safety CME: This activity contributes to the patient safety CME requirement for the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s (ABA) redesigned Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology™ (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0.® Please consult the ABA website, http://www.theAba.org for a list of all MOCA 2.0® requirements.
Max. 16.0 credits.
Thursday (max. 6.0)
- WS-03: Neuraxial (Including Difficult Spinal) and Paravertebral Blocks (2.0 credits)
- PS-02: Latest Updates into Current Practice (2.0 credits)
- PS-03: Controversies in Regional Anesthesia (2.0 credits)
- PBLD-17: Intravenous Lidocaine – Is There a Niche for It? Practical Recommendations for Safe Use (1.0 credits)
- IS-01: RA in High-Risk Scenarios (Pre-Existing Neurologic Injury, Anticoagulation EG Vascular Surgery, Patient with Poor Respiratory Function for Surgery of Trunk and Above (1.5 credits)
- IS-03: The Challenging Spinal and Epidural: Techniques, Pearls, and Tips for Success (On Placement, Dosing, and Confirmation) (1.5 credits)
- WS-11: Head/Neck, Airway, Spine (Craniotomy, Neck Surgery, V2/V3 Block, Airway, Occipital Nerve, ESP/MBB/Retrolaminar) (1.5 credits)
- PS-09: Motor Preserving Blocks- How Distal Can I Go and Still Make A Clinical Difference In Analgesia (+live scanning) (1.5 credits)
- WS-20: Pediatric Block Pack: Neuraxial, Blocks for Neurosurgical Cases, Thoracic and Abdominal Wall Blocks, PPG (1.5 credits)
- IS-04: Ask the Experts Interactive Session: Hot Topics in Regional Anesthesia Education (1.5 credits)
Credit Reporting to the ABA: ASRA Pain Medicine is an ABA-approved provider and, as a service to ASRA Pain Medicine members and participants, CME credits are reported to the ABA. Participants must include their correctly formatted ABA ID number (34567890) during the online evaluation and credit claim process available at the conclusion of the activity. Once the online evaluation and credit claim process is closed, certificates will be issued and credits reported to the ABA. After this time, participants may request their CME certificate by contacting [email protected], but ASRA Pain Medicine will no longer report credits to the ABA, which will then be the individual participant’s responsibility. Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM program and MOCA® are registered trademarks of The American Board of Anesthesiology.® MOCA 2.0® is a trademark of The American Board of Anesthesiology.®
International credits
Commercial support disclosure
This live meeting is supported, in part, by in-kind support from industry. All support is managed in strict accordance with the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence. Appropriate acknowledgement of all supporting organizations is made to participants prior to the educational activity in the program guide, on the event website, and with signage during the meeting. View the guidelines for company representative and in-kind support.
ASRA Pain Medicine thanks the following organizations for their support:
- Grants: Pacira BioSciences
- Durable Equipment: Fujifilm Sonosite, GE Healthcare
- Disposable Supplies: Epimed, Pacira BioSciences
Disclosure and mitigation of personal conflicts of interest
In accordance with the ACCME’s Standards of Integrity and Independence of Accredited Education and related policies, ASRA Pain Medicine is committed to ensuring balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in its CME/CPD activities. Those in control of the educational content disclose all relevant relationships (financial or other) with any ineligible company that they have had within the past 24 months. If an individual refuses to disclose, they are disqualified from participating. Disclosure information is evaluated for relevance and conflicts of interest mitigated. Disclosure of all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies is made to participants prior to the activity. Participants are asked to evaluate the objectivity and independence. Off-label or investigational use of a therapeutic product is also disclosed.