Pain
Objectives
Students must acquire the competences as follow:
Identify patients with pain
Understand the patients with pain and its consequences
Try to identify the causes of the painful picture
Apply analgesic methods on order to well control pain
Evaluate the effectivity of the analgesic treatment
Understand the complexity of the pain.
General characterization
Code
11221
Credits
3
Responsible teacher
Prof. Doutor Jaime da Cunha Branco
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Bibliography
A Dor e suas Circunstâncias. Jaime C Branco, Lidel-Zamboni Editores, 2013.
Dor Neuropática Diagnóstico e Tratamento, 2ª Edição. Pedro Soares Branco, Float Healthcare, 2015.
Pain: Clinical Updates - www.iasp-pain.org
Guide to Pain Management in Low-Resource Settings www.iasp-pain.org
Moore A, Edwards J, Barden J, McQuay H: Bandolier's Little Book of Pain,
Oxford University Press, 2013
Wall and Melzack´s Textbook of Pain, sixth edition, Elsevier, 2013
Bonica´s Management of Pain, fourth edition, Lippincott Williams & WilKins, 2010
Teaching method
This Subject as a total of 84 hours including 55 hours of individual research and study, 14 hours of theoretical classes, 6 hours of theoretical-practical classes, and 8 hours of Seminars.
The theoretical classes are destined to structure the knowledge and the theoretical-practical ones facilitate is application development of questions that contribute to elaborate different clinical histories with several diagnosis hypothesis, prescription of diagnostic exams, proposals of diagnostic plans (that stresses patient empowerment) and diagnosis performance. Seminars main objective is to promote and facilitate open discussion of different issues with the confrontation of various perspectives.
The individual research and study component encourages the student to find bibliography and sites with unequivocal interest.
Evaluation method
The Subject evaluation includes:
- Continuous assessment based on the Seminars active participation
- Final examination
Subject matter
Theoretical classes
1. Pain in arth and literature
2. Pain and society
3. Pain: definition, classification and Clinic
4. Anatomophisiology of the nociceptive system and pain pathophysiology
5. Ethic and interdisciplinary management of Pain
6. Acute pain, in different contexts
7. Pain the chronicity continuum
8. Neuropathia pain
9. Oncologic pain
10. Spine pain
11. Palliative care in Portugal
12. Pain and psicoaffective disorders
13. Pain in elderly
14. Pain in pediatric age
15. Pain evaluation Methods and tools
16. History of pharmacologic Pain therapy
17. Non-pharmacologic pain therapy
Seminars
18. Pain Research. Pain papers presentation and discussion
Patient with Pain. Clinical cases presentation and interactive discussion.