Complex Cases: Pain Management

Challenging pain management experiences offer opportunities for advanced problem solving and the focus of our best knowledge and skills.  Using interactive case discussion, this seminar will highlight advances in the assessment and management of intractable pain. Opioid selection and rotation and approaches to neuropathic, nociceptive pain, both somatic and visceral, as well as mixed pain syndromes will be addressed. Attendees will examine the pathogenesis of pain, and how this translates into physical findings and patient presentation. Participants will gain in-depth knowledge about the pharmacology of analgesics and co-analgesics, as well as starting doses, titration strategies and monitoring strategies.