Pain Services at Westmead
Chronic Pain
The chronic pain service at Westmead takes a comprehensive approach to pain
management including:
- Multidisciplinary team approach
- Pharmacological interventions
- Non opoid pain therapies
- Systemic opoid therapies
- Adjuntive pharmacological therapies
- Use of advanced regional analgesia
- Therapeutic nerve blockade
- Psychological pain techniques
Acute Pain
Acute pain management includes:
- Pain management for multiple disciplines
- Acute post surgical pain
- Non surgical acute pain
- Obstetric analgesia
- A team based approach
- Specific acute pain therapies
- PCA
- Regional techniques
- Opoid infusions.
- Adjunctive therapies
Cancer Pain
The pain team is highly involved in the management of cancer pain at
Westmead.
Features of this includes:
- A multidisciplinary team approach.
- Use of acute pain therapies for cancer pain.
- Use of regional techniques for intractable pain
- Use of PCA and opoid infusions for short term pain management
- Use of pharmacological therapies in cancer pain.
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