The Alfred Pain Symposium
Learning Objectives
- Identify behaviours that may exacerbate and perpetuate pain and have an effective plan for management.
- Illustrate an understanding that facilitates skillful and safe management of opioid therapy.
- Effectively plan and execute multidisciplinary management for a patient with complex biopsychosocial pain.
- Illustrate an understanding of new analgesic and nonanalgesic agents, so as to appreciate their role in providing multimodal analgesia.
- Differentiate causes for pain syndromes such as headache and back pain to allow better formulation of therapy.
Topics include
- Multidisciplinary management of back pain.
- Weaning patients off complex multimodal analgesics.
- Managing opioids in the community.
- The epidemic of prescription of prescription opioid use.
- An approach to headaches, non-opioid analgesics.
- Making use of pain measurement tools.
- Pain from a psychiatric perspective.
Format
- Lectures
- Interactive Case based Clinical Discussions with the aim to stimulate GP audience input.
Presenters
- A/Prof Carolyn Arnold
- Dr. David Lindholm
- Dr. Evan Symons
- Dr. Kerry McLaughlin
- Dr. Alex Kontantatos
- Dr. Mir Wais Sekandarzad
- Dr. Elspeth Hutton
Conveners
- Dr. Mir Wais Sekandarzad
- Dr. Alex Konstantatos
Professional Development
40 Category 1 CPD points have been approved for this event by the RACGP
Participants quota
The maximum number of participants for this event is 50.
What date is the course?
Saturday 2 December 2017, 8:00 am -16:30 pm
Where is the course held?
Alfred Hospital, 55 Commercial Rd, Melbourne VIC 3004, ICU seminar room, 1st floor, Main Ward block (opposite theatre)
What is the cost?
$180 (incl. GST)
Morning tea and lunch provided
Refund Policy
- Up to four weeks before the Course
- 100% Refund
- Two to four weeks before the Course
- 50% Refund
- Less than two weeks before the Course
- No Refund