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Antea Worldwide Palliative Care Conference

Rome, 12-14 November 2008

ABSTRACT FORM

Presenting author Use of invasive techniques for pain treatment . Antea experience
Riccardo Sonnino
Author: Riccardo Sonnino
Email:
r.sonnino@anteahospice.org In 20 years Antea has followed about 11.000 patients and a few of them had in act treatments
with peripheral anesthesia or blocks. Most of them have been removed because were related with
Phone a lot complications and were substituted with traditional therapies . Only two cases have required
a peripheral treatment correlated with the pain symptom no responder to the pharmacotherapy.
After a review of our experience , we can assert that the use of invasive techniques is rare , and
Mobile phone it represents an exception. Educational and training represent a fundamental need for people
working with invasive techniques.

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abstract

• Pain and other symptoms


• Palliative care for cancer patients

• Palliative care for non cancer


patients
• Paediatric palliative care
• Palliative care for the elderly
• The actors of palliative care
• Latest on drugs

• Pain

• Illness and suffering through


media
• Marginalisation and social stigma
at the end of life
• Palliative care advocacy projects

• Prognosis and diagnosis


communication in
different cultures
• Communication between doctor-
patient and patient-
equipe
• Religions and cultures versus
suffering, death and
bereavement
Session: Pain
• Public institution in the world:
Chair: Prof. Alessandro F. Sabato, Prof. Guido Fanelli
palliative care policies
and law
• Palliative care: from villages to
metropolies
• Space, light and gardens for the
terminally ill patient
• End-of-life ethics
• Complementary therapies
• Education, training and research
• Fund-raising and no-profit
• Bereavement support
• Volunteering in palliative care
• Rehabilitation in palliative care
• Palliative care quality indicators

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