About
Beneficiary
HealthRoots Foundation – Providing Pain Management Education and Palliative Care to Malawi , Central Africa
Conference Dates
Friday, August 13, 2010 – Sunday, August 15, 2010
Cancer Pain Forum Dates
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 and Thursday, August 12, 2010
Location
The Meritage Conference Center and Resort
875 Bordeaux Way
Napa, CA 94558
Napa Pain Institute and Healthroots present the 17th Napa Pain Conference, an educational program on Effective Pain Management!
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.
Educational objectives for the conference attendees include:
- Discussion surrounding advances in the techniques for assessing and treating pain in patient populations such as the cognitively impaired, elderly patients in chronic, intractable pain, cancer, terminal illness, and pediatric patients;
- Recognition of the applications of established pain treatment and management disciplines, including neuromodulation and intraspinal techniques, as well as newer options for the treatment of chronic pain and spasticity-related conditions;
- Gain a better understanding of the effect opioid therapy has on the endocrine system
- Provide expertise and guidance on practice related topics such as legal and regulatory issues, clinical research, healthcare reform, and reimbursement.
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