37372 - ANESTESIOLOGIA 2 (AK-B)

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Course contents

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1. Pain as public health problem; Epidemiology of pain

2. Definition and classification of pain and its neurophysiopathology: peripheral and central mechanisms of nociception: activation and sensitization of the nociceptors, allodinia and hyperalgesia; modulation of pain; autonomic reflexes generated by pain; the referred pain.

3. The management of the patient with pain:

   a. The clinical examination of the patient with pain: history taking, physical examination and techniques of evaluation of pain (objective parameters and pain scales),

   b. Presentation of the most frequent acute and chronic painful syndromes: Neuropathic pain, Muscles and bones' pain , miofascial pain, Low Back Pain, Rheumatic disease, Cancer pain, post-operative Pain.

4. Major technical and pharmacological tools for pain therapy (administration routs, NSAIDs, Opioids, the elastomeric pump, PCA. PCEA)

Readings/Bibliography

  • Bonica's Management of Pain 3rd edition. Editor John D. Loeser. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Eds. 2001
  • RM Melotti, BG Samolsky-Dekel, et al. Pain prevalence and predictors among inpatients in a major Italian teaching hospital. A baseline survey towards a pain free hospital. European Journal of Pain Volume 9, Issue 5, October 2005, Pages 485-495
  • Melotti RM, Samolsky Dekel BG, et al. Categories of congruence between inpatient self-reported pain and nurses evaluation. Eur J Pain. 2009 Oct;13(9):992-1000. Epub 2008 Dec 31.

Teaching methods

Interactive frontal lessons with PC projection of the didactic material and clinical case movies.
Particular attention will be given to the application of the neurphysiopathology and clinical pharmacology notions in pain therapy.

Assessment methods

Oral examination on the program topics as they have been developed during the lessons.

Teaching tools

The content of the lessons will be delivered to the students at the end of the course as pdf foles of the slides.

Office hours

See the website of Boaz Gedaliahu Samolsky Dekel