CHANCE Association took part in organizing a conference titled “Current Approaches to Reducing Pain and Optimizing Palliative Care in Children” on May 12th and 13th 2022 in collaboration with the Department of Pediatrics at the LAU Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine and the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) in Lausanne.
The goal of the conference was to raise awareness among all healthcare providers and stakeholders about the importance of preventing and managing pain in children using the best practices and the most advanced international guidelines.
The program spanned over two days and included lectures and discussions led by experts in the field along with six hands on training workshops on palliative care with the team from Switzerland.
The conference was very successful in providing insights into the latest strategies and techniques used in approaching this topic and future steps towards tackling the diagnosis and management of pain in pediatric populations. It also delved into the importance of alternative medicine in the form of yoga, spirituality, art therapy and applications of virtual reality that have been proven effective in reducing pain and suffering in children.
