Description
Improving the Early Diagnosis and Management of Pain
Pain Management (e-Pain) specifically focuses on the areas of:
- improving the recognition of unrelieved acute and chronic pain
- assessing pain
- managing pain
- ensuring patient safety
This high-quality resource can be used both for training and continuing professional development. Users include hospital doctors, medical students, midwives, clinical psychologists, nurses, paramedics, physiotherapists and many others.
Course Content
e-Pain features more than 60 e-learning sessions. Each session takes around 30 minutes to complete. The sessions are clustered into learning modules, supported by external resources and an e-library of relevant articles.
Introducing Pain Management
- Epidemiology and the Burden of Pain
- Definitions and Mechanisms of Pain
- History, Examination and Assessment of Pain
- Common Medications and Therapies for Pain
- Acute Pain Management
Acute Pain
- History, Organisation and Objectives of Acute Pain Teams
- History, Examination and Simple Uni-dimensional Tools
- Perioperative Management of Chronic Pain Patients, including those on Pre-existing Opioid Therapy
- Preventative versus Pre-emptive Analgesia
- Chronic Post-surgical Pain
- Step III: Administration Techniques, Bolus, PRN (as needed), Infusion
- Step III: Administration Techniques, Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia
- Step III: Administration Techniques – Oral, Intramuscular, Subcutaneous, Rectal, Sublingual and Inhaled
Pain as a Long-Term Condition
- Chronic Pain Management
- Predictors for Chronic Pain
- Biopsychosocial Model in Pain Management
Treatment
- Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs
- Paracetamol
- Opioids – Basic Principles
- Commonly Used Opioids
- Local Anaesthetics
- Multimodal Analgesia
- Assessing Treatment Effectiveness
- Antidepressants and Anticonvulsants
- Multidisciplinary Management of Chronic Pain
- Psychological Assessment and Approach to Treatment
- Interventional Procedures for Pain Relief
- TENS, Acupuncture and Alternative Treatments
Other Chronic Pain
- Primary Headache
- Secondary Headache
- Facial Pain Principles and Management
- Pelvic Pain – Male and Female
- Visceral Pain – Gastrointestinal, Oesophageal, Non-cardiac Chest Pain
- Common Chronic Pain Conditions – Central and Widespread Pain
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Neuropathic Pain
- Diagnosis and Evaluation of Neuropathic Pain
- Common Chronic Pain Conditions 1 Postherpetic Neuralgia, Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy, Trigeminal Neuralgia
Paediatric Pain
- Pain in Children is Different
- Assessment of Children’s Pain
- Acute Pain in Children
- Chronic Pain in Children
- Musculoskeletal Pain in Children
Special Populations
- Pain and Analgesia in Pregnancy
- Sickle Cell Pain
- Drug Addiction, Dependency and Pain – Introduction
- Drug Addiction, Dependency and Pain – Management
- Assessment of Pain in Older Adults
- Common Pain Conditions in Older People
Cancer Pain
- Causes and Aetiology of Pain in Cancer
- Pharmacological Cancer Pain Management
- Non-Pharmacological Cancer Pain Management
- Pain in Cancer Survivors
Basic Science
- Anatomy of the Ascending Pain Pathway
- Innervation of the Trunk
- Physiology of Pain Transmission
- Modulation and Plasticity in the Nociceptive System
- Pain and the Peripheral Nervous System
- Pain and the Central Nervous System
- Nociceptive Pain
- Visceral Pain
- Neuropathic Pain
- Psychology Aspects of Acute Pain
- Imaging and Pain
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Additional information
Key Features | Covers the assessment and management of acute, chronic and cancer pain – Provides interactive content with case studies, animations and self-assessment – Suitable for all healthcare professionals |
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Suitability | Medical students, doctors, nurses, assistants and all healthcare providers who are not pain specialists but who deal with patients suffering from acute, chronic and cancer pain |
Certificate | Yes |
Duration | 12 months full access to complete the course |