Acute Pain Service

 

The Acute Pain Service (APS) provides advice on all acute pain problems at Northampton General Hospital during working hours. Acute pain problems out of hours should be referred to the first on call anaesthetist via the hospital switchboard.

Specific areas of expertise include provision of postoperative patient controlled analgesia (PCA) and post operative patient controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA). Referrals for in-patient chronic pain problems are also initially dealt with by the APS.

The APS provides a comprehensive hospital wide training programme for nurses and midwives in management and monitoring of acute pain.

 

The team

• Dr Goodwin- Lead Consultant Anaesthetist

  Dr Sreevalsan- Consultant Anaesthetist

  Dr Sabih- Associate Specialist Anaesthetist

  Sharon Tate- Clinical Nurse Specialist

  Emma Young & Louise Foulsham-McFall- Acute Pain Practitioners

 

Useful information

• Pain relief
• Coping with pain whilst you are in hospital
• Epidurals for pain relief after surgery

 

Pain Management After Surgery