Have you ever wondered if babies can actually feel pain? Do these painful experiences during the early years have any long-term impact? Do friends influence pain management? Does self hypnosis work for children with pain?
This year’s Education Day promises an exciting update on a broad range of topics with something for everyone! From surgeons who might beinterested in post operative pain management and paediatricians who deal with procedural pain or to all who treat children with chronic pain. If you find that managing parents can sometimes be a ‘pain’, come and learn the ‘tricks of the trade’ on how to handle them.
A special highlight of this year’s Education day is a half day hands-on workshop on ultrasound guided regional blocks in children. This hands-on workshop is limited to 30 participants, so register early to avoid disappointment!
(Note: To view speaker's profile, click on their name)
| TIME | TOPIC | SPEAKER NAME |
| 0800-0830 | Registration | |
| 0830-0900 | Do babies feel pain? – Understanding the physiology and assessment of pain in neonates and infants | Maria Fitzgerald |
| 0900-0930 | Do infants and children remember pain? – What are the long lasting effects of acute pain? | Suellen Walker |
| 0930-1000 | Can and do children tell the truth in pain reporting? – Measuring pain in children | Carl von Baeyer |
| 1000-1020 | Questions | |
| 1020-1050 | Tea | |
| 1050-1120 | Which analgesics are safe to use in babies and children? – Pharmacological treatment for acute pain | Dilip Pawar |
| 1120-1150 | ‘Books to Bedside – Applying Findings from the Procedural Pain Treatment Literature to an Individual Pediatric Patient’ | Lindsey Cohen |
| 1150-1220 | Post-operative pain: a thing in the past? –Principles of post-operative pain management in neonates, infants and children | Navil Sethna |
| 1220-1250 | Questions | |
| 1250-1400 | Lunch (Melaka Room) | |
| 1400-1430 | When the pain doesn’t go away - Model of care in chronic pain | Rikard Wicksell |
| 1430-1500 | Advanced Multimodal Analgesia for Children in Pain: From Integrative Medicine to Mind-Body Techniques |
Stefan Friedrichsdorf |
| 1500-1515 | Questions | |
| 1515-1545 | Tea | |
| 1545-1615 | How do we optimize the role of parents in children’s pain management? | Christine T. Chambers |
| 1615-1645 | Where do friends fit in? – Role of friends and social support in chronic pain | Paula Forgeron |
| 1645-1700 | Questions | |
(US guided regional blocks in children – limited to 30 participants)
| TIME | TOPIC | SPEAKER NAME |
| 1330 - 1400 | Registration | |
| 1400 - 1430 | How safe are regional blocks in kids? Safety issues of regional blocks in neonates, infants and children. | Nishanthi Kandiah |
| 1430-1500 | Overview and demonstration of ultrasound imaging for regional blocks in children | Adrian Bosenberg |
| 1500-1515 | Tea | |
| Hands on session | Educator | |
| 1515-1545 | Station 1: Head & neck blocks | Adrian Bosenberg Ng Kim Swan |
| 1545-1615 | Station 2: Upper limb blocks | Lai Hou Yee Chaw Sook Hui |
| 1615-1645 | Station 3: Lower limb blocks | Nishanthi Kandiah Ina Ismiarti Shariffuddin |
| 1645-1715 | Station 4: Truncal & abdomen blocks | Kathryn Walker Foo Li Lian |
| 1715-1745 | Station 5: Paravertebral blocks | Charles Berde Khoo Eng Lea |
