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

08:00 Introduction (Swiss Pain Institute, Lausanne)
08:15 Rotating workstations (max. 7 trainees per group): patient education and preparation before Spinal Cord Stimulation (real case discussions)
  • How to outline neurostimulation therapy to the patient
  • The test period
  • Decision criteria
09:30 Coffee Break
10:00 Rotating workstations: patient evaluation
  • Psychological evaluation (real case discussion)
  • Physiotherapy assessment
  • Questionnaire
11:30 Rotating workstations: surgical skills (do's, don'ts and tricks)
  • Lead placement
  • Anchoring
  • Pocket surgery
12:00 Lunch Break
13:30 Move to the cadaver laboratory (UFAM)
14:00 Cadaver lab: hands on training, rotating workstations
  • Lead placement
  • Anchoring
  • Pocket surgery
16:00 Cadaver lab: hands on sutures and stitches
17:00 End of the day 1

Program Day 2 – Saturday 17 May 2025

08:00 Welcome coffee (Swiss Pain Institute)
08:15 Workstations: situation in operating room
  • Anaesthesiology care
  • Perioperative infection
  • Surgical issues
10:00 Break and move to the operating room (Clinique Cecil)
11:00 Workstations: prepare the operating room (with live model)
  • Aseptic measures
  • Patient positioning
  • Surgical draping
  • C-Arm use and draping
  • Instruments and sutures
13:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Course documentation review
14:30 Patient testimony
15:30 Time for individual discussion
16:30 Evaluation
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.