| Contact
Details |
Dr Clare Roques
clareroques@hotmail.co.uk
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| BPS Council Member
Liaison |
Dr Sam Eldabe |
| Nature of SIG |
Pain management in developing Countries |
Description
of Activities
and Scientific Focus |
- To improve awareness of pain and the specific barriers
to the effective implementation of pain treatments
in developing countries.
- To improve the knowledge of patients, health care
workers and the public regarding pain management in
developing countries.
- To facilitate the communication of views, knowledge,
ideas and ideals between healthcare workers from developing
and developed countries.
- To engage in Advocacy, where appropriate, to highlight
the need for, and importnance of pain management in
the overall part of developing countireis healthcare
agenda.
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To organise meetings, seminars and workshops focusing
on pain management issues in developing countries.
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To support culturally sensitive research into pain
and pain management issues in and of developing
countries.
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To support the work of the IASP developing world
committee
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To look into innovative ways of facilitating communication
between healthcare professionals with an interest
in the developing world e.g. a web based forum for
the exchange of ideas and knowledge related to pain
management in developing countries.
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| Forthcoming
Events |
Liverpool 2012 ASM
Wednesday 25th April
11:00 - 12:30
Parallel Session A1: Practical analgesia
in the developing world: making a silk purse
Liverpool 2012 ASM
Thursday 26th April
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch time meeting for SIG Members
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