Sunday 11 October: 08:00 - 12:30
Course Director
- Fabio De Iaco (Italy)
Faculty
- Gregor Prosen (Slovenia)
Why register?
Acute pain is the least common denominator of many emergencies: the management of acute pain is a mandatory competence of each Emergency Physician.
The first edition of the Acute Pain Management course will cover the main topics regarding a correct and effective analgesia in the emergency setting: we’ll move from a crucial “dogmalysis”, criticizing habits and myths about pain, and discuss the relationship between acute pain and the practice of Emergency Medicine, between acute and chronic pain, between analgesia and outcome.
We’ll centre our attention on the patient – critical, pediatric, elderly, frail – presenting true and common cases and supplying evidences and suggestions with the aim of optimizing our efficacy on pain.
We’ll discuss the pharmacology of pain-killers – from mild to severe pain – with a special attention for the correct and safe use of opiates and sedatives. We’ll deal with old and new options of treatment (from acetaminophen to nitrous oxide and ketamine) and with different routes of administration.
We have two main objectives:
- To lead the clinician toward choices that must be mindful, appropriate and effective,
- To create a patient-centred environment also in the Emergency setting,
because we believe that the best quality of care is the best possibile experience for the patient.
Looking forward to meet you in Turin!
Schedule:
| 08:30 | Why are we here? The relationship between acute pain and the practice of Emergency Medicine |
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| 09:15 | The patient in moderate pain Acetaminophen and NSAIDS: not the same drug! |
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| 09:45 | “Hey Doc, three casualties by motor accident!” Traumatic severe pain, critical patients and the correct use of opiates and ketamine |
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| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 | To treat or to diagnose? Or both? Acute abdominal pain |
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| 11:00 | I can’t tolerate a kid in pain! Paediatric severe pain: drugs and routes of administration |
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| 11:30 | Grandma is out of her mind… Acute pain in the elderly |
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| 11:45 | Cancer patients? Not a problem… or not? Palliative care and end of life in the ED |
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| 12:15 | Non-pharmacologic treatment, communication and empathy, procedural sedation and more… What we didn’t tell about… |
National Societies
Albania
Albanian Society of Emergency Medicine
Shoqata Shqiptare e Urgjencës Mjekësore - SH.U.M.
Date of origin: 1 January 2013
Austria 
Belgium
Year of origin: 1995
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Association of Emergency Medicine Physicians of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Udruženje Urgentologa u Federaciji Bosne i Hercegovine
Date of origin: 15 March 2019
Bulgaria 
Croatia
Croatian Society of Emergency Medicine
HZL Hrvatsko Društvo za Hitnu Medicinu
Date of origin: 12 June 1990
Czech Republic
Year of origin: 1994
Denmark
Danish Society for Emergency Medicine
Dansk Selskab for Akutmedicin
Date of origin: 28 September 2006
Estonia
Estonian Society of Emergency Physicians
Eesti Erakorralise Meditsiini Arstide Selts
Date of origin: 30 March 2004
Finland 
France
French Society for Emergency Medicine
Société Française de Médecine d'Urgence
Date of origin: 3 March 1985
Georgia
Georgian College of Emergency Physicians
საქართველოს გადაუდებელი მედიცინის ექიმთა კოლეჯი
Germany
German Association for Emergency Medicine
Deutsche Gesellschaft Interdisziplinäre Notfall- und Akutmedizin (DGINA) e.V.
Greece
Hellenic Society of Emergency Medicine
Ελληνική Εταιρεία Επείγουσας Ιατρικής
Date of origin: 4 December 2002
Hungary
Hungarian Society for Emergency Medicine
Magyar Sürgösségi Orvostani Társaság
Date of origin: 8 April 2000
Iceland 
Ireland
Irish Association for Emergency Medicine
Cumann Leigheas Éigeandála na hÉireann (IAEM)
Date of origin: 29 April 1989
Italy
Italian Society for Emergency Medicine
Società Italiana di Medicina di Emergenza Urgenza (SIMEU)
Year of origin: 2000
Kosovo
Kosovo Society of Emergency Medicine
Shoqata për Mjekësi Emergjente e Kosovës (SHMEK)
Year of origin: 2008
Latvia 
Lithuania
Lithuanian Society for Emergency Medicine
Lietuvos Skubiosios Medicinos Draugija
Date of origin: 3 October 2003
Malta
Association of Emergency Physicians of Malta
Ghaqda Maltija tat-Tobba ghall-Emergenzi
Date of origin: 1 December 2006
Moldova
Society of Emergency Medicine and Disasters Medicine from Republic of Moldova
Asociația Obștească Societatea Științifico-Practică de Medicină de Urgență și Catastrofe din Republica Moldova
Netherlands
Dutch Society of Emergency Physicians
Nederlandse Vereniging van Spoedeisende Hulp Artsen
Year of origin: 1999
North Macedonia
Македонско здружение за ургентна медицина МЗУМ 2025 Скопје
North Macedonian Society of Emergency Medicine-NMSEM
Date of origin: 10 March 2025
Norway 
Poland
Polish Society for Emergency Medicine
Polskie Towarzystwo Medycyny Ratunkowej
Year of origin: 1999
Portugal
Portuguese Society of Urgent and Emergency Medicine
Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina de Urgência e Emergência
Romania 
Serbia
Serbian Society of Emergency Physicians
Društvo lekara urgentne medicine Srbije
Date of origin: 13 November 2014
Slovakia
Slovak Society of Disaster and Emergency Medicine
Slovenská spoločnost' urgentnej medicíny katastrof
Date of origin: 4 October 1997
Slovenia
Slovenian Emergency Medical Association
Slovensko združenje za urgentno medicino
Date of origin: 29 June 2016
Spain
Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine
Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias
Date of origin: 8 March 1988
Sweden 
Switzerland
Date of origin: 23 November 1990
Turkey 
Ukraine 
United Kingdom