8th Annual Comprehensive Review of Pain Management

August 2-5, 2001
Hyatt Newporter
Newport Beach, CA

Saturday, August 4, 2001

 

Moderator: Richard W. Rosenquist, MD
7:00 am Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors

Back Pain (continued) and Multiple Disease States

8:00 am

Radiofrequency Ablation
Philip S. Kim, MD
At the conclusion of this lecture, the registrant should be able to identify the basic principles of radiofrequency, clinical indications, and application in one's practice.

9:00 am

New Techniques A(IDET, vertebroplasty, pulsed RF)
Philip S. Kim, MD
At the conclusion of this lecture, the registrant should be able to identify the basic concepts, current clinical indications and future of these treatment modalities (IDET, vertebroplasty, pulsed RF) in current interventional pain practices.
10:00 am

Break with Exhibitors

10:30 am

Radiation Safety
Philip S. Kim, MD

At the conclusion of this lecture, the registrant should be able to explain the basic core concepts of radiation safety in the use of fluoroscopy machines.

11:15 am

Psychopharmacology for the Pain Patient
Scott M. Fishman, MD
At the conclusion of this lecture, the registrant should be able to:
• Distinguish the significant psychiatric comorbidities in pain management patients
• Recognize the broad nature of analgesics that overlap with psychopharmacological agents
• Identify optimal treatment strategies for using psychotropics in pain management
• Describe basic pitfalls in using analgesic and psychotropic agents

12:00 noon

Lunch on your own

1:00 pm

Managing the Difficult Patient in Pain
Scott M. Fishman, MD

At the conclusion of this lecture, the registrant should be able to:
• Recognize the difficult position that physicians and patients accept in the pain management arena
• Describe familiar patterns of dysfunctional behavior in patients with pain
• Identify familiar responses of physicians to dysfunctional pain-related behavior
• Distinguish optimal management strategies for the behaviorally difficult patient

2:00 pm

Pelvic and Abdominal Pain
Richard W. Rosenquist, MD
At the conclusion of this lecture, the registrant should be able to:
• Identify the anatomy of abdomen and pelvis
• Describe the diagnostic evaluation of pelvic and abdominal pain
• Recognize the treatment options available for pelvic and abdominal pain and their application

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Acute Pain
Vincent W.S. Chan, MD, FRCPC
At the conclusion of this lecture, the registrant should be able to:
• Identify postsurgical pain and other causes of acute pain
• Describe anesthetic and non anesthetic treatment modalities for acute pain
• Recognize indications, contraindications and complications of acute pain treatment options
  Workshop-2hrs (Kim, Benzon)   Problem-based Learning-1 hr each (Rosenquist, Fishman)
4:45 pm Radiofrequency - 2 hrs
(Limited to 25 Registrants)
4:45 pm Pelvic and Abdominal Pain - 1 hr
(Limited to 10 Registrants)
    5:45 pm Acute Pain - 1 hr (Limited to 10 Registrants)
 

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