Australia Delivery Healthcare and Medical Courses

This session describes the role of venous oxygen saturations when assessing the adequacy of tissue oxygenation in critically-ill patients, interpretation of the values in different clinical scenarios and how these values affect the choice of a management

This session will describe how the diagnosis of nociceptive pain can be made from the patient’s history, a physical examination and other relevant investigations. The deleterious effects of unmanaged nociceptive pain will also be covered.

This session is an introduction to the assessment of acute pain. It will cover history taking and physical examination, concentrating on the measurement of pain, particularly the use of simple unidimensional tools.

This session explores the uses and mechanism of action of paracetamol.

Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly prescribed to relieve acute and postoperative pain. It is therefore important to understand the mechanism of their action, side effects and complications of administration.

This session explains the use of analgesia provided by the inhalational route. It concentrates on the use of nitrous oxide and oxygen mixtures.

This session describes the effective and safe use of paracetamol and NSAIDs in the treatment of acute pain.

This session introduces commonly available opioids. It then goes on to discuss their associated side effects and clinical management of these side effects.

This session describes the principles of opioid therapy in particular dose titration and analgesic failure. It discusses how to control some of the adverse effects of opioid therapies.

This session will provide a rationale for the prescription of analgesia for patients with moderate acute pain.