Pain Treatment Information for physicians Swiss Pain Institute

Spinal Cord Stimulation – Practical course

16 and 17 May 2025
Before, during and after the implant: do’s and don’ts, tips and tricks

All day-to-day aspects are covered: from patient information and preparation to perioperative organization before, during and after surgery.
Operating room issues (anesthesia, optimal patient positioning, scrub nurse role and collaboration, surgical tools and sutures) are addressed as well as operating complication management and patient follow-up. These aspects are crucial to the safety and success of the test period and definitive implantation.
Target audience for this two-day course: pain physicians, anaesthesiologists, neurosurgeons and all specialists interested in spinal cord stimulation.

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Registration condition

Payment is due immediately after registration. You will receive an e-mail with all the necessary payment information after registration.

Registration fees, including lunch:

  • Members SSIPM: CHF 850.–
  • Non-members SSIPM: CHF 1050.–

Registration deadline: 31 March 2025

The number of participants is limited to 20.

 

Contact

Swiss Pain Institute
Barbara Mavrocordatos
course@swisspain.ch
Tel. +41 79 261 84 77

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Program Day 1 – Friday 16 May 2025

07:45 Welcome Coffee (Swiss Pain Institute)
08:00 Introduction and basic concepts
08:45 How to introduce neurostimulation therapy to your patient
09:15 The test period and decision criteria
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 Questionnaires
11:15 Psychological issues and patient evaluation
11:45 Physiotherapeutic evaluation
12:15 Lunch Break
13:30 Move to the cadaver lab (UFAM)
14:00 Cadaver lab: hands on training, rotating workstations (max. 7 trainees per group)
  • Lead placement
  • Anchoring
  • Pocket surgery
15:45 Coffee Break
16:15 Cadaver lab: suture and sewing workshop
17:00 End of the day 1

Program Day 2 – Saturday 17 May 2025

08:00 Introduction (Swiss Pain Institute)
08:30 Anaesthesia and SCS
09:00 Perioperative infection control
09:30 Instruments and sutures
10:00 Aseptic measures and surgical draping
10:30 Coffee Break and move to the operating room (Clinique Cecil)
11:15 Patient positioning C-Arm use
12:00 Aseptic measures and surgical draping
12:45 Instruments and sutures
13:30 Lunch Break and move to the Aquarium (Swiss Pain Institute)
14:30 Patient testimonial
15:30 Document review (Administration, insurance, inform consent, operating report, letters)
16:00 Questions and highlights
16:30 Course evaluation form
17:00 End

Faculty

Course Directors

  • Philippe Mavrocordatos MD, SSIPM, FIPP Anaesthesiologist
  • Sonia Zaccarini MD, SSIPM, FIPP Anaesthesiologist
  • Antoine Baudino MD, SSIPM Anaesthesiologist
  • Stéphane Favre MD, Psychiatrist
  • Lorinde Huard MD, SSIPM, FIPP Anaesthesiologist
  • Iris Pélieu MD, SSIPM, FIPP Anaesthesiologist
  • Vera Sattelmeyer MD, SSIPM Spine Surgeon
  • Michaela Stadler MD, FA SSIPM Anaesthesiologist
  • Muriel Colomb, Head Nurse
  • Carmen Mostert, Scrub Nurse

Credits

  • 16 CME credits: SSAPM/ Swiss Society for Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
  • 16 CME credits: SGNC/ Swiss Neurosurgeons Society
  • 12 CME credits: SSIPM/ Swiss Society For Interventional Pain Management

Access

The course takes place at three locations:

Swiss Pain Institute
Av. de Savoie 10, Lausanne

Unité facultaire d’anatomie et de morphologie UFAM
Rue du Bugnon 9, Lausanne

Clinique Cecil Groupe Hirslanden
Av. Louis-Ruchonnet 53, Lausanne

Accomodation

The organizers are trying to make a special arrangement with a hotel in Lausanne for the participants of the course.

Information on this will be sent by email after registration.