Acute Pain Service

Advanced Acute Pain Service

Common concerns that our patients usually express are related to the severity of pain after surgery and the modalities available to manage and reduce their pain. Therefore, we would like to reassure you that our overall goal is to meet your expectations and reduce your pain to a tolerable degree.

Patients that can benefit from the Service:

Caesarean Section
Major Joint replacement surgeries
Shoulder surgeries
Foot and Ankle surgeries
Major Back surgeries
Major Thoracic surgeries
Plastic surgeries
All acute medical and traumatic pain including acute back pain

ACUTE PAIN TEAM

A team specialized in acute pain treatment and regional anesthesia is available for your care

Aavailable Services

Acute Pain Service is an advanced care modality compared to the traditional modalities of treating acute pain and is tailored to the needs of each patient

Should you choose to request an advanced modality for your pain management, these are under the care of our Acute Pain Service (APS) team which is supervised by a consultant anesthesiologist specialized in acute pain, whom can help you with recommendations and advice that suit your needs.

Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA)

Is a special programmed pump that you control by the press of a button which will inject a calculated amount of pain relieving medication into your vein

Epidural Analgesia

which is the infusion of local anesthesia solution through a small plastic catheter that is placed in a space outside the covering of the spinal cord using a special kit

Peripheral Nerve Block Catheter

is locating the nerve or injection site using ultrasound, then a local anesthesia solution is injected near the nerve(s) and this can give up to 24 hours of pain relief. If a catheter is used for longer duration of pain relief it is placed near the nerve and a solution of local anesthesia will be infused and this can be used for up to 5 days

A combination

of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) and a nerve block