Australia Job Type Healthcare and Medical Courses

This session examines how and why acute pain services came into existence by exploring antecedents and important landmarks. It also looks at their organization and explains how this helps to support its objectives. Challenges that the services face now an

This session describes the optimization of pain control through the rational combination of drug and non-drug modalities.

This session looks at the action of opioids given by epidural and intrathecal routes and considers the key adverse effects; it will enable you to execute a management strategy for these adverse effects.

This module will enable you to use patient controlled analgesia (PCA) techniques according to patient need and to manage common problems and side-effects.

This session will provide a rationale for the prescription of analgesia for patients with moderate acute pain.

This session describes the principles of opioid therapy in particular dose titration and analgesic failure. It discusses how to control some of the adverse effects of opioid therapies.

This session introduces commonly available opioids. It then goes on to discuss their associated side effects and clinical management of these side effects.

This session describes the effective and safe use of paracetamol and NSAIDs in the treatment of acute pain.

This session explains the use of analgesia provided by the inhalational route. It concentrates on the use of nitrous oxide and oxygen mixtures.

Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly prescribed to relieve acute and postoperative pain. It is therefore important to understand the mechanism of their action, side effects and complications of administration.