• List of Refresher Courses
• List of Symposia
• List of Panel Discussions 
• List of Ask the Expert Sessions
• List of Pro-Con Debates
• List of Luncheon Discussions
• List of Workshops
• Nurses’ Program

Preliminary List of Refresher Courses

Regional Anesthesia                       

• Regional aneasthesia in current practice of eye surgery.     
• Regional anaesthesia and temperature control   
• Adjuvant drugs in regional anaesthesia  
• Basic knowledge of apparatus, physics and anatomy for the use of ultrasonography in regional anaesthesia       
• Opioids related hyperalgesia and tolerance. How are they influencing anesthesia and analgesia practice
• Ambulatory regional anaesthesia - Anaesthetics analgesics and adjunctive therapies       
• Regional anaesthesia and analgesia and outcomes in day case surgery
• The airway management in regional anesthesia practice: the laryngeal mask airway and alternatives
• Providing and facilitating high standard obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.      
• Update on local and regional anesthesia in obesity       
• Postoperative pain management following Cesarean section      
• Modern labour analgesia             
• Why mothers die: what anesthetists can do!      

Acute & Chronic Pain                     

• Spinal cord mechanisms of action based in evidences and clinical application
• Polyanalgesic infusion in chronic pain patient. Practical issues in daily clinical practice
• Multimodal analgesia. Facts and realities                     
• Current developments in opioid therapy for management of cancer pain 
• Interventional therapies for acute and chronic pain: Indications and efficacy                                                
• Pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of persistent abdominal/Pelvic Pain            
• Pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of post surgical low back pain                                                         

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Preliminary List of Symposia

Regional Anesthesia

• Epidural anaesthesia: new insights
• Pediatric anesthesia
• Geriatric patient and regional anesthesia
• Complications and mishaps in regional anesthesia
• Regional analgesia in 2010: What is the evidence?         
• How much ultrasonography has changed the practice of regional anesthesia? Old blocks new practice
• Ultrasound the real evidence and the limitations
• Improving clinical practice. Lessons taken from the anatomy

Acute & Chronic Pain

• Imaging and pain
• Acute pain treatment programme how can we measure its efficacy
• Chronic postsurgical pain prevention or just treatment? Specific role of regional anesthesia techniques
• Chronic pain update
• Ultrasound in the practice of pain management>
• Postoperative pain: Answering unsolved questions Top

Preliminary List of Panel Discussions 

Regional Anesthesia

• Views from obsteric anaesthesia
• The problematic block in the obstetric patient
• Infection after regional anesthesia
• Dramatization of a regional anaesthesia complication scenario – a mock trial

Acute & Chronic Pain

• Cancer pain management
• Invasive neurostimulation in chronic pain  – the evidence
• Intraarticular techniques

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Preliminary List of Ask the Expert Sessions

• Infusion techniques in obstetric epidural analgesia
• Can I directly start with US in regional anesthesia procedures or do I need to perform firstly NS techniques?
• Why some nerves don't respond to neurostimulation and how to manage      
• Postoperative management of orthopedic lower limb surgery     
• The influence of new antithrombotic drugs on regiional anesthesia
• US guided introduction of nerve catheters                                
• Nerve complications in the practice of Regional  Anesthesia and its management
• Pediatric regional anesthesia                             
• Epidural steroids and low back pain
• Epidural vs. abdominal wall blocks for the abdominal surgery
• Regional anesthesia for patients with back problems and previous perispinal interventions

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Preliminary List of Pro-Con Debates

Regional Anesthesia

• Lipid rescue resuscitation from local anaesthetic cardiac toxicity
• Regional anesthesia in anesthetized or heavily sedated patients
• US-guidance does not decrease the complication rate of RA practice             
• Will wound catheters replace peripheral nerve catheters in orthopedic surgery?
• Clonidine and neostigmine should become part of routine labour analgesia protocols
• Use of thoracic epidural anaesthesia as a sole technique for thoracic or cardiac surgery

Acute & Chronic Pain

• Paravertebral and TAP block will replace thoracic epidural?

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Preliminary List of Luncheon Discussions

• Regional anesthesia in the critically ill parturient             
• Best anaesthetic technique for patient with severe cardiac disease undergoing total hip arthroplasty
• Regional anesthesia in children: problem to be solved   
• Low dose spinal anesthesia for C-section           
• Labour analgesia: answering your burning questions                
• US procedures, InPlane or Out Of Plane, and how to start  
• LIA technique for major knee surgery
• How to act in systemic toxicity of the local anesthetic
• Practical aspects of the TAP block: landmark or ultrasound technique
• The impact of newer anticoagulant drugs
• Changing use of lipid resuscitation - is it effective with all local anaesthetic drugs?              

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Preliminary List of Workshops

• Transforaminal epidural injections
• Proximal Peripheral nerve blocks for ankle surgery
• Idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia
• Delivery under epidural analgesia and unexpected C-Section
• Visceral pain and peripheral nerve stimulation
• Specific Ultrasound guided blocks for pain management
• Geriatric pain management
• New Proposals for anesthesia in major joint surgeries
• Approaching anesthesia in Abdominal Surgery with different views
• Did ultrasound change regional anesthesia techniques in children? 

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Nurses’ Program

Preliminary List of Refresher Courses

• Conscious sedation for comfortable-appearing regional anesthesia 
• Labour analgesia for nurse and midwife
• Postoperative pain management after C-section  
• Exploring pain management in older people with fractures 
• Preparation of pediatric patients for anesthesia and surgery        

              

Preliminary List of Workshops

• Postoperative analgesia - home program    
• Nursing Implications of regional nerve. Blocks and Infusion of local anesthetics 
• How to run an induction room for Reg Anesth in the OR? Nursing management of peripheral nerve blocks infusions   
• How to evaluate long term postoperative recovery
• From acute to chronic pain, how to prevent?
• Ultrasound for the (anesthetic) nurse 
• Managing Regional Anesthesia in the PACU        
• Organisation of acute pain service - the role of nurses