eLearning in less than 60 minutes

In this room you will find a series of workshops using a multimedia presentation of PowerPoint slides with audio commentary by the NPC team. You will need speakers and a sound card in your computer.

There's a lot of evidence about NSAIDs, it is complex and has been published piecemeal. We have summarised this into what we believe is a fair, balanced and accurate summary of the current position. But unfortunately we haven't been able to keep to our plan of "everything you need to know about X in less than 60 minutes". The workshops are each around 20 minutes - in keeping with the "bite-sized chunks" philosophy - and an outline of the content of each workshop is given below. Simply click on one of the underlined links and then click on the play icon to begin. You can jump forwards to skip a slide or backwards to repeat a slide by clicking the relevant slide on the left hand side of the console.

Section 1 - Overall summary (23min 32secs)

Section 2 - Setting the scene (7min 39secs)

• Prevalence, pathology and disease burden of OA
• How can we measure musculoskeletal pain?
• What are NSAIDs used for?

Section 3a - Options for musculoskeletal pain (13min 00secs)

• Non drug and first-line pharmaceutical options:
  • Non-drug treatments
  • Topical treatments
  • Paracetamol

Section 3b - Options for musculoskeletal pain (11min 59secs)

• Other pharmaceutical options:
  • Oral NSAIDs
  • Opioid analgesics
  • Glucosamine and chondroitin
  • Intra-articular injections

Section 4a - What are the GI risks of NSAIDs? (25min 37secs)

• The extent of the problem, the relative risks of traditional NSAIDs, coxibs, etodolac and meloxicam

Section 4b - What are the GI risks of NSAIDs? (12min 17secs)

• The role of gastroprotective agents and H pylori

Section 5a - What are the CV and renal risks of NSAIDs? (16min 59secs)

• The risk of thromboembolic events

Section 5b - What are the CV and renal risks of NSAIDs? (10min 49secs)

• Heart failure, blood pressure & renal risks

Section 6 - What are the implications for practice? (18min 49secs)