- Understanding of the principles of chronic pain management in the pain clinic setting
- Assessment of patients with acute and chronic pain
- Specific conditions not mentioned but probably considered core knowledge
- Back pain
- Complex Regional Pain Syndromes
- Headache
- Neuralgia – trigeminal and glossopharyngeal
- Post herpetic neuralgia
- Central pain including stroke
- Post amputaion pain
- Adjuvant drugs used to manage chronic pain:
- Antidepressants
- Anticonvulsants
- Antiarrhythmics
- Other adjuvant medication
- Principles of neural blockade for pain management:
- Peripheral nerve
- Plexus
- Epidural
- Subarachnoid blocks;
- Sympathetic blocks including stellate ganglion, coeliac plexus and lumbar plexus blocks
- Neurolytic agents and procedures
- Implanted catheters and pumps for drug delivery
- Spinal Cord Stimulators
- The role of other treatment modalities;
- Physical therapy
- Surgery
- Psychological approaches
- Rehabilitation approaches
- Pain management programmes
- Management of severe pain and associated symptoms in palliative care
- Basic assessment and management of pain in patients with cancer
- Principles and ethics of pain research
CEACCP 2006: AUGUST
Mark A Jackson and Karen H Simpson
Chronic back pain
CEACCP 2004: FEBRUARY
Mark A Jackson and Karen H Simpson
Pain after amputation
CEACCP 2005: FEBRUARY
Sally-Ann Ryder and Catherine F Stannard
Treatment of chronic pain: antidepressant, antiepileptic and antiarrhythmic drugs
CEACCP 2003: DECEMBER
Jason W Brooks and W Paul Farquhar-Smith
Cannabinoids and pain
CEACCP 2003: OCTOBER
Sue Peacock and Paul Watson
The psychology of chronic pain
CEACCP 2005: JUNE
Roxaneh Zarnegar and Clare Daniel
Pain management programmes
CEACCP 2005: DECEMBER
Stephen G Oxberry and Karen H Simpson
Pharmacotherapy for cancer pain