Instructions

Date & Location
Thursday, October 10, 2024, 12:00 PM - Thursday, December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM

Target Audience
Specialties - Physicians
Professions - Physician, Physician Assistant

Overview

Why does gabapentin cause edema?

The medication lists of many older adults require some scrolling to get from top to bottom. In fact, the lists are often so lengthy and complicated that it’s difficult to discern what conditions a patient doesn’t have. One reason for this unwieldiness is a phenomenon known as the “prescribing cascade,” in which the side effects of one medication require treatment with another, and so on. Some of these cascades, even if cumbersome to the patient, make a certain amount of physiological sense. For example, patients getting chemotherapy also get anti-emetics, or patients on opioids for pain receive a bowel regimen for constipation. However, one cascade is a little less obvious. Why are patients on gabapentin more likely to be prescribed a loop diuretic?


Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

  1. Generate examples of prescribing cascades in clinical medicine.
  2. Review the mechanism behind gabapentin-mediated edema.
  3. Apply an understanding of the mechanism behind gabapentin-mediated edema to potential remedies.

Registration

There is a $10.00 Credit Claim fee to obtain CE credit for this activity. This Credit Claim fee will help to cover the costs of operational services, electronic reporting (if applicable), and real time customer service support. 

  • Please select the "Register," tab to register for the activity and access content.
  • In order to receive continuing education credit, learners must listen to the 30 minute podcast, pass the post-test (2 questions, 100% required score, unlimited attempts), and complete an evaluation form. 

The planning committee members report having no relevant financial relationships to disclose:

Hannah Abrams 
Tony Breu
Avi Cooper

No commercial or in-kind support was provided for this activity.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Curious Clinicians and VCU Health Continuing Education. VCU Health Continuing Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

VCU Health Continuing Education designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.50 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

It is the responsibility of the participant to provide the correct information [ABIM ID Number and DOB (in MMDD format)] in order to receive MOC credit for participating in a CE activity. 

Disclaimers 
Minimum and maximum numbers for attendance at this event have been established, and we reserve the right to substitute speakers/topics, adjust credit hours, or cancel if necessary.

By attending this event you grant VCU Health Continuing Education the right at the event to record, film, photograph, or capture your likeness in any media and to distribute, broadcast, use, or otherwise disseminate, in perpetuity, such media without any further approval from or any payment to you.  

 

Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.50 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.50 hours)