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$5.00 – $10.00
“ePPOC across epochs” Pain outcomes across the ages, and where to from here? Chair: Dr Jordan Wood, Sydney Children’s Hospital, NSW This session will provide attendees with a 2017 update on pain epidemiology and clinical outcomes. This session will also address chronic pain as a public health problem. The expert speakers will argue we need…
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$5.00 – $10.00
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Practical perspectives on assessment and management Chair: Dr Malcolm Hogg, Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC European and American guidelines regarding the assessment and management of CRPS have been published and form the basis of current management. We will discuss aspects of the condition’s pathophysiology and the development of a CRPS pathway incorporating…
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$5.00 – $10.00
Pain in aged care settings Chair: Professor Benny Katz, St Vincent’s Hospital, VIC The number of people living in residential aged care facilities within Australia is projected to increase by more than 250% by the middle of this century. Epidemiologic studies indicate that more than half of this rapidly growing population will suffer from persistent…
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Professor Stephen Hunt has been Professor of Molecular Neuroscience at University College London since 1998. Before that he was at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge where he pioneered research into the rapid neuronal gene expression that promotes chronic pain states. He has worked extensively on the molecular neurobiology of Pain and Addiction…
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$15.00 – $35.00
The Physiotherapy in Pain Management workshop is designed for any Physiotherapist who works with people in pain. Specifically, this workshop will address issues related to the assessment of people with persistent pain.
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$15.00 – $35.00
The pharmacology in pain management is increasingly becoming a worldwide challenge particularly in geriatric patients who represent a significant component of our daily clinical work. Pain is often under diagnosed and under treated. It may be attributed to age-related physiological changes, and there may be misperceptions about the use of pain medications by both patients…
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$15.00 – $35.00
The Basic Pain Research workshop will aim to present current basic pain research in Australia and provide evidence of its importance for our understanding of mechanism underlying nociception. Area experts will provide latest research in areas such as impact of the immune system on nociceptive processing, role of the spinal cord in processing of nociceptive…
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$15.00 – $35.00
Fundamentals of Pain is a half day workshop exploring current perspectives on the physiology of acute and persistent pain, including psychological aspects, the clinical approach to assessment, and treatment options. Whilst developed for a GP audience, this workshop is pertinent to the interdisciplinary practitioner or early career clinician. Using lecture presentations on physiology, pharmacology and…
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$15.00 – $35.00
This year the Pain in Childhood Pre-Conference Workshop has evolved to a full day programme. The morning session will focus on complex and chronic pain. The afternoon session will cover acute and procedural pain. We are excited to be able to conclude the day with a 90min workshop by local procedural hypnosis expert Dr Allan…
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$15.00 – $35.00
Session 1 – COMPLEX and CHRONIC Chair – George Chalkiadis George Chalkiadis – Welcome and Introduction Mark Alcock – From the ground up … constructing a new children’s complex pain service Zoe Jones & Rebecca Fechner – Graded Motor Imagery (GMI) for Children and Young People with Persistent Pain Hema Rajappa – Multidisciplinary Telehealth in…
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$15.00 – $35.00
The Acute Pain Day Pre-Conference Workshop promises to address recent advances and controversies in Acute Pain Management. The programme is suitable for the occasional pain specialist, regular APS consultants and nurses. Session 3 – Incident Pain Management Chair – Sarah Flint Julie Fleet – Intranasal fentanyl in labour Heather Gray – Topical local anaesthetic for…
