Friday November 10th - Cuisle Beatha 2017
Session 1: Revisiting Pain Pathways in Cancer Pain Versus
Chronic Pain: Apples Versus Oranges
Chronic Pain: Apples Versus Oranges
08.00 | - | 08.50 | Registration, NUI Galway | ||||
Opportunity to Visit Exhibition Stands and View Posters. | |||||||
08.50 | - | 09.00 | Welcome Address | ||||
Prof. Dympna Waldron, NUIGalway, Consultant in Palliative Medicine | |||||||
Galway University Hospitals (GUH) - Roscommon County Hospital & (RCH) | |||||||
Roscommon Home Care Team (RHCT). | |||||||
Co-chairs | Prof. Donal Reddan, Consultant Nephrologist & General Physician at GUH, | ||||||
Group Clinical Director for medicine, SAOLTA (WNWHG) group. | |||||||
Ms. Ellen Patricia Wiseman, Assistant Director of Nursing, Cancer Services, GUH. | |||||||
09.00 | - | 09.40 | Is Tapentadol different from classic opioids? A review of the evidence. | ||||
Prof. Anthony Dickenson, Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, | |||||||
University College London. | |||||||
09.40 | - | 09.50 | Case series of patients with use of Tapentadol; including a patient with Phantom | ||||
Limb Pain | |||||||
Dr. Leona Reilly, Registrar in Palliative Medicine, GUH in collaboration with Ms. Evelyn Newell and Ms. Mary Nolan, Physiotherapy, GUH. | |||||||
09.50 | - | 10.30 | Use of Cannabinoids in clinical practise - review of bench to bedside | ||||
To explore scientific evidence & the possible clinical uses of Cannabinoids | |||||||
Prof. David Finn, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, NUI Galway | |||||||
and the Co-Director of the Centre of Pain Research, NUI Galway. | |||||||
10.30 | - | 10.45 | A case of paediatric status dystonicus: challenges & management options | ||||
Dr. Laura Gaffney, Clinical Tutor, Medicine, Registrar in Palliative Medicine, Galway | |||||||
University Hospitals (GUH) in collaboration with | |||||||
Prof Nicholas M. Allen, Consultant General Paediatrician & Paediatric Neurologist, NUI Galway. | |||||||
10.45 | - | 11.10 | Tea/Coffee - Opportunity to Visit Exhibition Stands and View Posters |
Session 2:
Co-chairs | Prof. Timothy O Brien, Professor of Medicine, Dept of Medicine, NUIG. | ||||||
Dr. Noel Flynn, Consultant & Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia, Galway University Hospital | |||||||
(GUH) & NUI Galway. | |||||||
11.00 | - | 11.15 | Cancer Pain: From the real lived experience | ||||
John Walsh OO7!! Author; Husband; Father. | |||||||
11.15 | - | 11.55 | From the editor of Bonica`s textbook on pain - Have we classified cancer pain in the | ||||
wrong trajectory within chronic pain | |||||||
Prof. John D. Loeser, Professor Emeritus, Neurological Surgery, Professor Emeritus, | |||||||
Anaesthesiology & Pain Medicine University of Washington, USA. | |||||||
11.55 | - | 12.25 | Cancer pain is misplaced in chronic pain - a new definition for cancer pain as constant | ||||
acute pain & clinical evidence to back this up | |||||||
Professor Dympna Waldron, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, NUIGalway, GUH - RCH - RHCT. | |||||||
12.25 | - | 12.35 | A picture paints a thousand words - The clinical importance of getting to the source of | ||||
the pain | |||||||
Dr. Sobna Ravindrarasan, Registrar in Palliative Medicine, Galway University Hospitals (GUH). | |||||||
12.35 | - | 13.00 | Panel Discussion: Debate to the floor on the morning session | ||||
13.00 | - | 14.00 | Lunch |
Session 3:
Co-chairs | Dr. Eileen Mannion, Lead in Saolta Palliative Medicine. Consultant in Palliative | ||||||
Medicine GUH & Lecturer NUI Galway. | |||||||
14.00 | - | 14.30 | Imaging the neural correlates of chronic pain and relief: a translational neuroscience | ||||
approach | |||||||
Dr. Andy Segerdahl, Senior Researcher, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, | |||||||
University of Oxford. | |||||||
14.30 | - | 15.10 | Case series of patients appropriate for Intra-techal Opioid Pumps and Spinal Cord | ||||
Stimulators | |||||||
Dr. Sarah Nestor, Registrar in Palliative Medicine, GUH. | |||||||
15.10 | - | 15.30 | An overview of opioid use in children with malignant & non-malignant conditions | ||||
Dr. Mary Devins, Consultant Paediatrician with a special interest in Paediatric Palliative | |||||||
Medicine, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin (OLCHC) & The Coombe Women | |||||||
& Infants Maternity Hospital. | |||||||
15.30 | - | 16.00 | Break | ||||
Co- Chairs | Prof. Dominic O'Brannagain, Consultant Physician in Palliative Medicine, Honorary | ||||||
Associate, Clinical Professor RCSI. | |||||||
Dr. Cathryn Bogan, Consultant Physician in Palliative Medicine, North West Hospice/Sligo University Hospital. | |||||||
16.00 | - | 16.10 | A Case of all PAIN PATHWAYS explored over 17 years. A Patient with Idiopathic | ||||
Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis | |||||||
Prof. Dympna Waldron, NUIGalway, Consultant in Palliative Medicine | |||||||
Galway University Hospitals (GUH) - Roscommon County Hospital & (RCH) | |||||||
Roscommon Home Care Team (RHCT). | |||||||
16.10 | - | 16.30 | Outcome Measures in Pain Control - to date there is no ideal measure to use | ||||
Prof. Laserina O'Connor, Professor of Clinical Nursing, University College Dublin(UCD). | |||||||
16.30 | - | 17.00 | Delirium and Opioids: exploring the controversy and the evidence | ||||
Prof. Peter G. Lawlor; Associate Professor, Division of Palliative Care, | |||||||
Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada. | |||||||
17.00 | - | 17.30 | Panel Discussion: Debate to the floor on the afternoon session |
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