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Pessaries for Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Shared Care for Pessary Self-management. What Does it Take?

29/04/2024 19:20:33

Workshop Schedule

5 mins

Introduction to speakers

Patricia Briar Neumann

5 mins

Patient Interviews

J. Oliver Daly

15 mins

Anatomy & pathophysiology of pelvic organ prolapse (POP), symptoms, diagnosis, exclusion of pathology. Assessment with POP-Q & POP staging. AUGS App

J. Oliver Daly

20 mins

Evidence for pessaries (Cochrane SR 2020) Evidence for oestrogen and its clinical application. Risks and complications. How to manage complications from a UG perspective

Rohna Kearney

10 mins

Predictors of success and failure, what pessary to choose when? How to manage complications – physio perspective

Kate Lough

10 mins

How to prevent complications – database/follow up, patient education, written patient info, what patient should look out for, what is serious, what to do/when to escalating care. How to manage complications – nursing perspective.

Angie Rantell

10 mins

Care pathways - Shared-care: what does it look like in different countries? The role of the GP.

J. Oliver Daly

10 mins

Self-management, what makes a patient suitable? What’s the evidence? TOPSY study

Rohna Kearney

10 mins

Clinical Practice Guidelines (UK 2021), pessary choice algorithm Pessaries through the life-stages

Kate Lough

10 mins

Training and competency standards – why do we need them? Physio care in private practice and public hospitals Shared care – the role of the GP I am starting out and want to fit pessaries. What do I need to do?

Patricia Briar Neumann

15 mins

Self-management in COVID. Consideration of sexual function in pessary choice. Nursing roles in different levels of care

Angie Rantell

30 mins

Tips and techniques. Case studies, practical tips

Patricia Briar Neumann
J. Oliver Daly
Rohna Kearney
Angie Rantell
Kate Lough

Aims & Objectives

Intermediate
180 minutes
Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Clinical
Pessary Self-management Multi-disciplinary
Conservative Management

This workshop aims to:

  1. provide attendees with the opportunity to understand the options for using pessaries to manage women with POP within varied multi-disciplinary teams from primary to tertiary care
  2. provide an opportunity to understand the current evidence for pessary self-management, the barriers and enablers, indications and limitations
  3. understand the current recommendations on training requirements for health practitioners
  4. provide an opportunity to practice hands-on pessary insertion and removal of various pessary types in small groups, using non-human vaginal models to enable intensive participant involvement.