This session provides a focused, case-based review of perioperative management for patients with opioid use disorder, including care considerations for patients receiving medications for opioid use disorder, aligned with the ACAAM National Addiction Medicine Didactic Curriculum and ABPM content areas.
What This Covers• Perioperative considerations for patients with opioid use disorder across clinical settings• Management of patients receiving medications for opioid use disorder, including buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone• Approaches to acute and postoperative pain management in this population• Clinical decision-making around continuation, adjustment, or temporary modification of MOUD• Use of multimodal pain management strategies• Prevention of withdrawal and optimization of pain control during the perioperative period• Application of case-based strategies to perioperative care in patients with opioid use disorder
How This Resource Is UsedThis session is designed for on-demand learning and targeted content review. It can be used to reinforce specific knowledge areas or as part of structured board preparation.
James S. Walsh, MD
Dr. Walsh is a family medicine physician at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where he practices in Addiction Medicine and Family Medicine Obstetrics. He serves as Director of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship and is board certified in Addiction Medicine with more than 20 years of clinical experience.
He received his medical degree from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center and completed his residency at Montefiore Medical Center.
Shivani Vasa, MD
Dr. Vasa is an internal medicine physician who, at the time of this presentation (September 2025), was an Addiction Medicine Fellow at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
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Access PeriodAccess to this recording is available through June 30, 2027, in alignment with ACAAM’s annual academic cycle.
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