The Persistent Perioperative Pain Symposium covers topics such as:
- How to predict the development of chronic pain after surgery
- Why patients develop chronic pain
- Prevention and treatment of pain
- New technology and machine learning
- Use of interventional techniques in the subacute stage
- Issues related to opioid use
- The importance of a multidisciplinary approach
- Implementing a transitional pain service
The Persistent Perioperative Pain Symposium brings together anesthesiologists and other physicians and scientists involved or interested in in prevention and treatment of pain.