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Horizon Scanning in Postoperative Pain Management

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Description

This is the first of three webinars in a series being produced through a collaboration of the IASP's Acute Pain Special Interest Group and the European Pain Federation titled:
                     
                           Improving Outcomes of Postoperative Pain Management: The Way to Go

The learning objectives for this webinar series will prepare you to:
1) Demonstrate an understanding of relevant outcomes of managing pain after surgery.
2) Understand how regional anesthesia and parts of integrative medicine can demonstrate better outcomes.
3) Understand the impact of acute pain services and transitional pain services on pain outcomes.
4) Understand the benefits of monitoring patient reported outcomes.
                                                         
The mission of IASP's Acute Pain Special Interest Group is “to study underlying mechanisms of acute pain, including the transition from acute to chronic pain, and the implications of acute pain therapy for clinical outcome and quality of life.”

Research is ongoing about the outcomes of postoperative pain management that are clinically important for better comfort and early recovery. Maintaining the capacity of daily functioning and to perform useful activities such as turning in bed, breathing deeply and coughing, sitting in a chair, etc., is known to be crucial for preventing complications.

Furthermore, it's become increasingly clear that the decades-old problem of undertreated postoperative pain is not because of lack of effective drugs or techniques but to a lack of an organized, multidisciplinary approach, such as acute pain services (APS) which uses existing treatments. Nowadays, expanding the role of the APS to an interdisciplinary Transitional Pain Service seems promising. Join us as we explore the impact of acute pain services and transitional pain services on pain outcomes, discuss a potential research agenda, and participate in the conversation.
                                                                                 
Participants include:
-- Sandra van den Heuvel, PhD, FIPP, Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands
Acute Pain Services in Europe: A Comparison of Four Country Provisions Using Donabedian's Framework
-- Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, MD, PhD, University Hospital Muenster, Germany
The Organization, Benefits, and Pitfalls of Transitional Pain Service
-- Felicia Cox, FRCN, Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, London, UK (moderator)
-- Rianne L.M. van Boekel, PhD, RN, Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands (moderator)

Contributors

  • Sandra van den Heuvel, PhD, FIPP

    Sandra van den Heuvel is an Anesthesiologist, pain specialist, and theme-leader for acute pain management at Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands. In 2020, she obtained her PhD on modulation of mechanisms and improving diagnosis of cancer-related pain (due to surgery and chemotherapy). Additionally, she is focusing on the transition from acute to chronic perioperative pain, peripheral neuropathy, and chronic opioid misuse. She is an active member of regional and national committees concerning perioperative opioid management, the educational committee of the World Institute of Pain, and involved in national guideline development in perioperative pain. She helped in implementing basic pain management strategies in the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Tanzania, Africa.

  • Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, MD, PhD

    Esther Pogatzki-Zahn is full professor at the University Hospital Muenster, Germany, where she works as a pain specialist and principle investigator of the “Translational Pain Research Group”. Her research aims to provide insight into the neuropathology of postsurgical, chronic inflammatory, neuropathic, and cancer related pain by using basic science in vivo behavioral, electrophysiological, -omics, optogenetic, fMRI and molecular methods as well as human translational pain studies. She performs clinical pain-related studies encompassing a biopsychosocial spectrum, is involved in many international multicenter projects and performs meta-analysis. Her research is supported by grants from the DFG, the BMBF, the G-BA and Horizon 2020/IMI. She is a council member of the IASP, a board member of several other societies, and the Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the EJA and EJAIC.

  • Felicia Cox, FRCN

    Felicia Cox is a Nurse Consultant in Pain Management. She is a past Chair of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Pain and Palliative Care Forum and is a co-opted member of the Council of the British Pain Society. She is a committee member of the EFIC Covid Task Force and EFIC Research Strategy group, the IASP Acute Pain Special Interest Group, and a founding member of the Pain Nurse Network.

    She is the co-editor of the British Journal of Pain. The breadth of her pain related publications spans the continuum from the Daily Telegraph to The Lancet with systematic reviews, chapters, and books in between. She has also co-authored e-learning modules on pain and medicine safety and has contributed to several Family Practice Management publications.

    She is an Honorary Lecturer at Kings College London, UK, has been awarded Honorary Membership of the British Pain Society and Fellowship of the RCN for her services to pain. Her clinical and research interests include chronic post surgical pain and procedural pain, and enjoys supporting novice authors to publish and disseminate their work.

  • Regina "Rianne" L.M. van Boekel, PhD, RN

    Rianne is a trained nurse, teacher, epidemiologist and researcher. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pain, and Palliative Medicine of the Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands. She's won several personal scholarships/awards and is a member of several (inter)national scientific (advisory) committees. Rianne chaired the Dutch Association of Pain Nurses from 2015-2021. She's actively collaborated with European colleagues to develop the Core Curriculum for the European Diploma in Pain Nursing, published in 2019. She is the Chair of IASP's Acute Pain Special Interest Group.

December 20, 2023
Wed 10:00 AM EST

Duration 1H 0M

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Event Support:
Gregory.Carbonetti@iasp-pain.org