Results of Educational course “Application of Spinal Stimulation for Treatment of Chronic Pain Syndromes”
Two-days educational course on application of spinal stimulation for treatment of chronic pain syndromes was held on April 25-26, 2018 at the premises of the Federal Neurosurgical Center (Novosibirsk) with support of Medtronic company. The course consisted of lectures and practice.
The doctors of the Federal Neurosurgical center were the lecturers:
· Aleksandr B.Dmitryev, Head of functional division of the Federal Neurosurgical center (Novosibirsk);
· Natalia P.Denisova, neurosurgeon of the functional division of the Federal Neurosurgical center (Novosibirsk);
· Vidjay M.Dzhafarov, neurosurgeon of the functional division of the Federal Neurosurgical center (Novosibirsk).
The course was opened by the report of Dr.Dmitryev on “Application of SCS in treatment of neuropathic pain”. In his report Dr.Dmitryev told about principles of spinal stimulation, indications and counter indications for this type of treatment method application.
Dr.Dzhafarov presented his report on “Novelties in neurostimulation: high-frequency stimulation, stimulation in treatment of pelvic pain, etc.” where he highlighted specific examples of SCS application and also new possibilities of systems that would appear in the nearest future.
“Neurostimulation in treatment of facial/headache” was presented by Dr.Denisova. She presented modern methods of stimulation systems application for treatment of intractable facial and headaches.
Complimentary to the lectures, the theoretical part included discussion of clinical cases of spinal stimulation application and also basic principles of neurostimulators’ programming.
During practical part of the course the participants participated in review of patients chosen for surgery; they had chance to be present in the operating rooms and watch surgery in implantation of test and permanent spinal stimulation systems.
The participants were awarded 10 scores according to the continuous medical education.