About
Beneficiary
HealthRoots Foundation – Providing Pain Management Education and Palliative Care to Malawi , Central Africa
Conference Dates
Friday, September 16, 2011 – Sunday, September 18, 2011
Location
The Meritage Conference Center
875 Bordeaux Way
Napa, CA 94558
The Napa Pain Institute and Healthroots present the 18th Napa Pain Conference, an educational program on Effective Pain Management!
Target Audience
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of any professional interested in pain diagnosis and treatment.
About
Chronic pain affects 85 million people in the United States alone and it is now recognized that pain is a sign of illness and can provide a useful tool for Doctors to measure and monitor a patient’s state of health, illness or well-being. Although pain is subjective and can vary from one patient to another and from one day to the next, healthcare providers attempt to measure pain as objectively as possible and treat pain as effectively as possible. It is essential that pain clinicians get a sense of how much pain a patient is experiencing and to determine if treatments are effective or simply not working to combat pain. Because pain is such an important part of diagnosis and treatment, the need for doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers to register pain as a vital sign is becoming a mandated part of medical care.
Conference Objectives
Educational objectives for the conference attendees include:
• Identify patients at risk for opioid addiction as a result of persistent pain.
• Identify appropriate candidates for spinal cord stimulation to manage neuropathic pain.
• Integrate the use of Radio Frequency Rhizotomy into practice.
• Identify lumbar canal stenosis and be familiar with available treatments.
• Recognize depression including the affects of depression in the pain patient.
• Review drug interactions related to compounded agents.
• Differentiate medical vs. interventional treatment approaches for neuropathic pain.
• Utilize spinal injections to improve outcomes.
• Identify confounding issues that may interfere with the successful treatment of the severely spastic patient.
• Identify indications for thoracic spinal cord stimulation.
• Assess awareness of intrathecal drug delivery challenges.
• Recognize factors that necessitate a transition to other treatment options.
• Identify aberrant behaviors associated with active substance, alcohol or prescription drug misuse/abuse.
Physician Continuing Education
Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and The Napa Pain Institute. The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation
The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 17.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest
Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) requires instructors, planners, managers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified conflicts of interest are thoroughly vetted by PIM for fair balance, scientific objectivity of studies mentioned in the materials or used as the basis for content, and appropriateness of patient care recommendations.
Americans with Disabilities Act
Event staff will be glad to assist you with any special needs (ie, physical, dietary, etc). Please contact Samantha Ryan prior to the live event at (707) 252-9656.
Educational sessions and activities made available to all attendees will include but are not limited to:
Lectures and General Sessions
Round Table Discussions
Panel Discussions
Abstract Presentations