Australia Delivery Healthcare and Medical Courses

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.

This module will enable you to use patient controlled analgesia (PCA) techniques according to patient need and to manage common problems and side-effects.

An overview of pain and the nociceptive system, including a description of nociceptive pathways from transduction to perception of pain.

This session provides an overview of peripheral mechanisms of injury-induced and inflammatory pain. It includes a description of the physiology of nociception at the dorsal horn and supraspinal levels.

This session describes the mechanisms by which the pain signal is subject to modulation, from induction to perception.

A guide to the use of controlled ventilation during general anaesthesia in paediatric patients.