Acute Pain Day AM – Pre Conference Workshop

Description

Join us in this broad-based workshop to suit all knowledge levels and a variety of specialist areas with a multi-disciplinary focus in the field of Acute Pain Management. The aim is to share information, evidence, and our experiences with a focus on a pragmatic approach to optimise our practice. Issues pertinent to today’s challenges will be presented with opportunities to discuss and propose solutions to our greatest problems. It will help update our core knowledge, as well as find ways to move forward in this constantly challenging and vital area of medical care.

Welcome and Introduction 0830 – 0840 Dr Luke Murtagh -Welcome and introduction
Session 1 Chair: Dr Nina Loughman
0840 – 0910 Dr Chris Orlikowski – Acute Pain Management in the patient with chronic pain
0910 – 0940 Dr Trudi Disney & Ms Marjan Van Velzen – Complex Acute Pain Service patient pathway: Applying a structure to the challenging aps patient
0940 – 1010 Dr Viet Tran – The challenges of Analgesia Management in the Emergency Department

Session 2 Chair: Dr Christine Huxtable
1100 – 1135 Dr Charlotte Heldreich – PeriOperative Pain Management, Education and Deescalation (POPPMED) Service: effecting change by challenging the paradigms
1135 – 1210 Dr Amit Ganguly – Gabapentinoids – Preventing pain or causing a new crisis?