Post-Operative Care Including Acute Pain Management

Unfortunately pain is often an inevitable consequence of surgery. Our understanding of pain and the methods for alleviating and avoiding pain have improved markedly over the last decade. A large proportion of anaesthetic specialist training is focused on pain management and as a result anaesthetists are the doctors that are generally considered to be the best at managing pain.

Optimal pain management often commences prior to your operation and continues into the period following your operation. A well coordinated approach involving your anaesthetist, surgeon and nurses is required and Wide Bay Anaesthesia is continually striving to improve this component of your care.

Advanced techniques in pain management are utilised by the anaesthetists from Wide Bay Anaesthesia including regional anaesthesia, infusions and patient controlled analgesia.