Webinar: Optimising surgical outcomes through evidence-based acute pain protocols

Managing acute pain requires a structured approach, because it is a patient’s right to be pain-free. Because anaesthesiologists are the leaders of the surgical procedures, the WFSA must encourage the promotion and education of the guidelines and protocols that are constantly changing on acute pain management.

FACULTY:

Moderator:
Dr Sidonia Suazo Reyes, Regional anaesthesiologist, Hospital del Valle, member of WFSA’s Pain management committee, WFSA (Honduras)

Speakers:

– Dr. Ching Fan Carina, LI, Specialist anaesthesiologist, Hong Kong Pain Medicine Centre (Hong Kong SAR, China)
– Dr. Eleni Moka, Head of Anaesthesiology Department, Creta InterClinic Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, ESRA President (Greece)
– Dr. Francois Retief, Consultant anaesthetist and senior lecturer at Tygerberg Hospital and Stellenbosch University in Cape Town (South Africa)
– Dr. Ana Schwartzmann, Assistant Professor of the Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital de Clínicas, member of WFSA’s Pain management committee (Uruguay)

PROGRAMME:
– Introduction by the moderator (10′)
– Talk 1: Preoperative acute pain management guidelines , by Dr. Carina Li (20′)
– Talk 2: Intraoperative acute pain management guidelines by Dr. Ana Schwartzmann (20′)
– Talk 3: Postoperative acute pain management guidelines by Dr. Eleni Moka (20′)
– Talk 4: What new technologies are implemented in acute pain management by Dr. Francois Retief (20′)
– Q&A (15′)

INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. Create awareness on acute pain management by discussing all the protocols and guidelines in every stage of acute pain management.
2. Spread the knowledge about the new techniques and multidisciplinary actions made in acute pain management, because the well being and patient safety is our priority.
3. Empower the programmes the WFSA has implemented in pain management, as EPM.