Overview of Pain Management

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• Revision - Essential Pain Management
  What is pain?
  
  Basic framework to manage pain
  
  • Classification
  • Physiology/Pathology
    Mechanism of Pain
    
  • Recognise
  • Assess
  • Treat
    Treat the underlying cause if possible
    
• Acute Pain
  See also...
  
  • Acute Pain Case
    
    
    How would you manage her pain?
    
    SOCRATES assessment
    
    Non-Drug
    
    Drug
    
  • Student Case
    
    
    How would you manage his pain?
    
• Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
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  • Chronic Pain Case
    
    
    How would you manage her pain?
    
    SOCRATES assessment
    
    Psychological Assessment
    
    Non-Drug
    
    Drug
    
  • Student Case
    
    
    How would you manage his pain?
    
• Cancer Pain
  • Cancer Pain Case
    
    
    How would you manage his pain?
    
  • Student Case
    
    
    How would you manage her pain?
    
• Important Medication
  Drug treatments
  
  • Paracetamol
  • NSAIDS
  • Opioids
    See also...
    
    Which Opioids?
    
    Indications for use of opioids
    
  • Adjuvants
• Safe Opioid Prescribing
  Introduction
  
  See also...
  
  • About Opioids
    Tramadol
    
    Codeine
    
    Morphine
    
    Oxycodone 
    
    Fentanyl
    
  • Acute Pain
    
    
  • Cancer Pain
    Call the Palliative Care Team (or Pain service) for advice!
    
  • Safe practice
    Clinical situations you may find yourself in
    
    The nurse phones...
    
• Useful Information
  People to call for help
  
  Interesting articles and websites
  
  Thanks to...
  
• Relevant Clinical Scenarios
• Relevent Core Medications
  Analgesics - core medication list
  
• MBChB Portal
• Feedback and Contacts
  Contacts
  
  Five Minute Feedback Survey