Pharmacology and Pain Therapeutics II

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures
Exam 100%.

Learning Outcomes

To Support the critical view of the various areas related to the drugs used in the treatment of pain.
Provide more specialized knowledge about clinical pharmacology and pain therapy.
To Know definitions of placebo and Placebo effect.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Placebo effect
Integrated management of drug therapy and pharmacotherapeutic monitoring of pain
Classification, diagnosis and pharmacological therapeutic intervention in different situations of acute and chronic pain.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Cristina Gaspar Cabral

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Silberstein SD, Lipton RB, Goadsby PJ. Headache in Clinical Practice, 2nd ed. London: Martin Dunitz, 2002.
Vanderah TW, Ossipov MH, Lai J, et al. Mechanisms of opioidinduced pain and antinociceptive tolerance: descending facilitation and spinal dynorphin. Pain 2001; 92:5–9.
Wahlstrom J, Lindegard A, Ahlborg G Jr, Ekman A, Hagberg M. Perceived muscular tension, emotional stress, psychological demands and physical load during VDU work. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 2003; 76(8):584–590.

Wall PD. The placebo and the placebo response. In: Wall PD, Melzack R (Eds). Textbook of Pain. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2003, pp 1297–1308.
Vase L, Riley III JL, Price DD. A comparison of placebo effects in clinical analgesic trials versus studies of placebo analgesia. Pain 2002; 99:433–452
Hanks GW, de Conno F, Cherny N, et al. Morphine and alternative opioids in cancer pain: the EAPC recommendations. Br J Cancer 2001; 84:587–593.
Headache Classification Subcommittee of the International Headache Society. The International Classification of Headache Disorders, 2nd ed. Cephalalgia 2004, 24 (Suppl 1):1–160.