FREE: Introduction to Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (WC1025)

Course Format

This course is online. All course material is available online and is accessible immediately after purchase from your account homepage. Certificate of Completion is available immediately upon passing the exam.

Course Overview

Outline:

• Case Study
  
  
• Introduction
  
  
• Bizarre Symptoms 
  
  
• A Three-Stage Profile
  
  
• Sympathetic Testing
  
  
• Focus on Pain
  
  
• Psychosocial Aspects of Care
  
  
• Unanswered Questions   
  
  
• New Research Directions
• diagnostic criteria,
• epidemiology, 
• RSD/CRPS model systems,
• disease mechanisms,
• integration between basic research and clinical research, and
• therapy

Course Objectives

1. Define reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (RSDS).


2. Identify the three stages of RSDS and manifestations of each stage.


3. Outline treatment and nursing care priorities for a patient with RSDS.


4. Identify the 6 potential directions for basic and clinical research on new treatment strategies.