EFIC Pain School on Acute, Perioperative and Trauma-Related Pain
General information
9-11 March 2025
Riga, Latvia
Course Organisers: Winfried Meissner, Claudia Weinmann, Ruth Zaslansky
Faculty:
Mienke Rijsdijk, MD, anesthesiologist, Netherlands
Dusica Stamenkovic, MD, anesthesiologist, Serbia
Iveta Golubovska, MD, anesthesiologist, Latvia – host
Valdis Skotelis, MD, pediatric anesthesiologist, Latvia
Jorge Jiménez Cruz, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Germany
Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen, MD, Orthopedic surgeon, Denmark
Rianne van Boekel, PhD, RN, Netherlands
Nadja Nestler, PhD, RN, Austria
Focus of this EFIC Pain School:
This course aims to develop skills for assessing and managing acute pain related to surgery and trauma in adults. The interactive course format will present an evidence-based approach to assessing, formulating a diagnosis, and designing a comprehensive holistic pain management plan. The program will emphasize a multi-disciplinary and multi-professional approach to managing pain. The course will follow EFIC’s Core Curriculum for physicians, nurses, and physiotherapists as these are the professions most involved in caring for people experiencing acute, post-operative pain. The focus of the school is addressing management of acute pain in adults. However, we will briefly introduce management of pediatric patients, as well.
Main topics:
EDPM Curriculum
1.6 Bio-psychosocial Aspects of Pain
1.7 Assessment of pain
1.8 Management of Pain
3.1 Acute Pain
Nursing Curriculum (in addition to the topics above)
1.1 Multidimensional Impact and Nature of Pain
2.1 – 2.9 Inter-professional Working and Learning
3.1 Assessment
3.2 Outcome Measures
4.1 Promoting Self-Management
4.2 Non-pharmacological Interventions
4.3 Pharmacological Interventions
4.4 Interventional Therapies
4.5 Comorbidities
6.1 Patient and Family Education
7.3 Evidence-Based Pain Management
7.4 Audit and Data Management
Physiotherapy Curriculum (in addition to the topics above)
3.1 Communication
Target Audience
The course is open to anesthetists, surgeons, nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists, researchers, and quality assurance specialists in the early-middle stages of their careers. Care providers who wish to gain advanced knowledge and tools in managing acute pain will receive preference. Applicants should have basic skills in pain management but need not be specialists. We expect that learners will take it upon themselves to disseminate the knowledge and experience they gained during the course among their peers.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe approaches for carrying out a person-centered pain assessment.
- Discuss means for providing multi-modal management, pharmacological and non-pharmacological, of acute surgical/trauma pain in major patient groups and one which takes into account pre-existing pain and/or risk factors for developing chronic pain after surgery.
- Describe options for communicating with patients to create individualized management plans, based on evidence and clinical reasoning, taking into account patients’ level of health literacy, age, gender, and culture.
- Able to recognize placebo and nocebo responses and how to integrate them into care.
- Review and discuss structures for providing acute pain management within a hospital setting.
- Identify the role of quality indicators & research in management of acute pain.
How to apply
Application for this EFIC Pain School is now open! The deadline for registration is 1 November 2024.
- Please note that for this pain school, your level of English needs to be at least C1 or higher according to the CEFR standard.
- EFIC offer 15 places for this Pain School free of charge via a grant. For the chosen 15 applicants, all teaching and related activities are provided free of charge, along with accommodation and meals. The only significant cost these applicants should expect to pay is their travel.
- As EFIC Pain Schools aim to focus specifically on interprofessionalism, applications from nurses and physiotherapists are especially encouraged.
- All applications are evaluated by the European Pain Federation EFIC® Committee on Education and approved by the Executive Board.
