German Society for Pain Medicine

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German Society for Pain Medicine
(DGS)
purpose Medical society for pain therapy
Chair: Johannes Horlemann
Establishment date: 1984
Seat : Berlin
Website: dgschmerzmedizin.de

The German Society for Pain Medicine eV (DGS) is a medical society for pain medicine based in Berlin .

history

In 1984 Thomas Flöter and Dietrich Jungck founded the Schmerztherapeutisches Kolloquium eV (STK). In 2003, the founders received the Federal Cross of Merit for their services to pain therapy .

aims

Society is committed to

  • promoting algesiology as the science of pain ,
  • the quality assurance in the treatment of pain,
  • the creation of therapy standards for the qualitative and quantitative improvement of pain therapy patient care,
  • the promotion of palliative medical care for people in the end of life ,
  • advanced training in the fields of pain diagnosis and pain therapy,
  • recognition of the additional qualification in algesiology for appropriately trained doctors in all areas,
  • the establishment of interdisciplinary pain therapy centers ( pain conference, pain forum; in 2005 over 100 locations in the Federal Republic of Germany) and
  • the modification of the Narcotics Act to prescribe narcotics .

German pain award

Once a year the DGS organizes the "German Pain and Palliative Day" in Frankfurt am Main and has also awarded the German Pain Prize every year since 1986 . The scientific sponsors of the award are the DGS and the German Pain League .

Magazines

It has been publishing the journal pain medicine since 1985 and, in cooperation with the German Society for Algesiology (DGfA), awards the association's internal qualification as algesiologist DGS / DGfA, the requirements of which are far stricter than those for the additional designation of special pain therapy and are checked annually.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://dgschmerzmedizin.de/ansprechpartner.html
  2. ↑ http://dgschmerzmedizin.de/satzung.html
  3. ↑ German Pain and Palliative Day 2016 (with archive). Retrieved September 27, 2016 .