Month: November 2024

The 17th Edition of the Meeting  “Pain is avoidable” is held at Fundacion Valenciana Premios Rei Jame I

It has been held the 17th Edition of the Meeting dedicated to “Pain is avoidable” that over the years has brought together physicians to deal with something as common as pain.

Once again this year, Dr. De Andrés, professor of anesthesiology at the University of Valencia and head of this service at the General Hospital of Valencia, directed the meeting, which was attended by several specialists such as doctors Juan Marcos Asensio, Pablo Rodríguez Gimillo and Pablo Kot, who formed the first panel dedicated to “Neuropathic pain associated with diseases that generate neuropathies”, in which they talked about how the body can react to the different external aggressions.

Dr. Romero Serrano, Dr. Bovaira and Dr. Abejón participated in the second panel , and together with Dr. De Andrés spoke about “, Why does pain after surgery or trauma hurt me and not others?” in which Dr. De Andrés stated that “when pain is persistent, when it is severe and does not subside by the usual means, there are specialists dedicated to work together with other specialist to achieve that quality of life for patients”.

For the scientific director of the meeting, “the slogan of pain is avoidable is not always avoidable, but I would say that it is always palliable and treatable. At least – he affirms – to achieve a quality of life”. He expressed his support and satisfaction with the Pain Units that are already common in the majority of hospitals in the Spanish national network: “It is important that there is continuity over such a long period of time, transmitting a common message such as that pain is avoidable, which was the motto that Professor Grisolía transmitted to us on his first day 17 years ago and we intend to transmit this legacy over the years, especially because I believe that, fortunately, the quality of care all these years has changed since today, Pain Units in hospitals are a fact known by most of the population, and the management bodies of the different health departments, including the Ministry of Health, understand that the treatment of pain is a right of the population, so that there is a care structure in practically all the hospitals in the national network”, emphasized Dr. De Andrés.

The third panel was formed by Dr. Canós, Dr. Hernández Cádiz and Dr. Cid Calzada, who discussed about “Treatments in specific vulnerable populations”.

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The FVPRJ organizes a day dedicated to palliative care, where the director of the Centre for the Humanization of Health questions the system of humanization in the last moments of a patient’s life.

The Valencian Foundation Rei Jaume Prizes held the conference on Palliative Care with the coordination and scientific direction of Loreto Peyró, Doctor of Psychology and the presence of Noemí Valtueña, Vice-Dean of Physiotherapy at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University.

The director of the Centro de Humanización de la Salud y Centro Asistencial San Camilo in Tres Cantos, Madrid, José Carlos Bermejo, opened the round of speeches by stating that ‘people die badly in our society’ and emphasized that ‘we need to promote a palliative culture, cultivate knowledge, arts, beliefs, laws, customs and habits that make us make peace and have control of symptoms and spiritual support to face death with dignity’, said the professor at the Ramón Llull University in Barcelona.

Elisa Bañuls, a terminal physiotherapist at the Valencian Institute of Oncology (IVO), also spoke alongside Dr Bermejo, for whom the quality of life of cancer patients is essential in their recovery. For her “oncological rehabilitation is present before, during and after treatment and must prevent the after-effects of treatment”.

Thirdly, the doctor and president of the Valencian Society of Palliative Medicine, Concepción González, spoke, calling for “palliative care not to be offered in the last moments of life but to be given earlier, with quality of life, pain treatment” and advocated “progress in communication, symptom control and emotional support” to improve palliative care for patients. Dr González referred to the five skills to be taken into account: science and competence (training), awareness, understanding, compassion and confidence. And she called for this training to be taught in universities ‘in order to dignify a situation that every human being is going to live through’.

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