Pain Management: 2016 Update

Topics

• Opioid Therapy – CNCP
• Opioid Therapy – Cancer
• Pain Pathophysiology
• Guidelines Canadian 2010- opioid use for pain
• Visceral pain
• Neuropathic pain guidelines
• Opioid choices – clinical scenarios
• Individual Opioids
• Pain processing disorders- fibromyalgia, etc
• Adjuvants
• Psychiatric correlates to chronic pain
• Non-drug approaches to pain
• Pain Assessment and outcomes
• Cannabinoids
• Role of descending inhibitory pathways – clinical relevance
• APS – methadone guidelines

Who should Attend

• Nurses
• Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Nurse Practitioners