Palliative Continuing Care

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lecture with presentation and discussion of case studies.

-Final Examination.

Learning Outcomes

Identify pain as a multi-factor symptom/disease. To Develop control strategies of pain in palliative care. Pain therapy training. Recognize the need for multidisciplinary intervention.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Pathophysiology of chronic pain

Assessment of Pain: difficulties and obstacles; Doctor-Patient Relationship; Scales; Evaluation strategies; Epidemiology of Cancer Pain and non-cancer pain

Who's strategies for chronic pain and palliative care

Scientific research in chronic pain

Therapeutic Approach

> Chronic Pain

> Of associated symptoms and co-morbidities

> Causes for insufficient control of pain

Pathophysiology and treatment of neuropathic pain.

Clinical Cases.

Head Lecturer(s)

Marilia Assunção Rodrigues Ferreira Dourado

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Circular Normativa nº 11/DSCS/DPCD de 18 de Junho de 2008, Direcção-Geral de Saúde, Programa Nacional de Controlo da Dor Plano Nacional Luta Contra a Dor, 2001

O’Connor AB, Dworkin RH. Am J Med 2009;122;S22–S32

Paice JA et al. J Pain Symptom Manage 2000;19(1):45–52;3

Kroenke et al. Pharmacotherapy of chronic pain: a synthesis of recommendations from systematic reviews. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 2009;31(3):206-19

Pain DETECT: a new screening questionnaire to identify neuropathic components in patients with back pain. Curr Med Res Opin.2006;22(10):1911-20

Fields HL and Basbaum AI. Central nervous system mechanisms of pain modulation: Wall PD and Melzack R, eds Textbook of Pain, 4th ed. Churchill Livingstone:London, UK;1999,310

Bouhassira et al Comparison of pain syndromes associated with nervous or somatic lesions and development of a new neuropathic pain diagnostic questionnaire (DN4) Pain 114;2005;29–36.