Australia Permanent Healthcare and Medical Courses

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.

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.