Target group doctors Contents
DPMC Curriculum - Week 1
Topic
Concept of a Regional Anesthesia & Pain Management
Lecture:
~ History taking, patients assessment & pain measurement
~ Pharmacotherapy in pain management including neurolytic agents & botulinum toxin
Advances in Regional Anesthesia
~ Nerve Locator and Regional Anaesthesia Needles(Demo)
~ Neuraxial Blocks: Newer Advances
~ Combined Spinal Epidural Anaesthesia What’s New
~ Continuous Spinal Anaesthesia
Pain spectrum – Acute & Chronic Pain
~ Nociceptive, visceral & neuropathic pain
~ CRPS complex regional pain syndrome
Symposium/Lecture on Neuraxial pain spectrum:
Headache, Neck pain, Thoraco lumbosacral pain,
Coccygodynia, Failed back surgery syndrome KPMC
Lecture:
~ Significance of Radiology & Imaging in Pain Medicine MICentre
~ Brachial Plexus Block Different techniques
~ Continuous Plexus Blocks:Concepts & Techniques
Symposium:
~ Common Pain conditions & their Management
~ Scar Neuralgia, Post herpetic neuralgia, SGRH
~ Phantom limb pain, Meralgia parasthetica
~ Myofascial pain syndrome, Perineal pain
Lecture:
~ Head & Neck pain & blocks
~ trigeminal neuralgia, glossopharyngeal neuralgia
~ Lower Limb Nerve Blocks
~ Continuous lower limb Nerve Blocks
~ Joint pain & their Management
shoulder pain (Frozen shoulder), elbow pain (tennis elbow)
wrist pain (carpal tunnel syndrome), digits’ pain knee pain, heel pain (tendoachllitis)
~ Advanced cancer pain management & palliative Care
~ Psychological component in pain patient behaviour
~ Complications of Regional Anaesthesia Techniques
~ Regional Anaesthesia Techniques in Children
DPMC Curriculum - Week 2
Advanced Interventional Pain Management Techniques
~ Principles of Radiofrequency (RF)
RF ablation of – Stellate Ganglion
Lumber Plexus, Coeliac plexus
Superior hypogastric plexus
~ Principle of fluoroscopy and its application
in pain management, Epidurography,
Transforaminal Injections etc.
~ Deep brain stimulation (DBS) and Ozone nucleolysis in pain management
~ Spinal cord stimulation in different painful conditions
~ Intrathecal drug delivery system for pain & spasticity management
~ Spasticity of Cerebral & Spinal origin and
its management by drugs, nerve blocks, botulinum toxin
~ Pain management programmes
~ Ambulatory infusion Pumps in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Management
~ Thought Stimulation:
Effects of pain management on patients survival
Effects of learning pain management on anaesthesiologists
~ Adjuvants in pain Management
Acupuncture : TENS
Acupressure : LASER
Physiotherapy : Hydrotherapy Comments Four candidates per batch for two weeks Course language
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