Acute pain service (APS)
The Acute Pain Service (APS) was created at Warwick Hospital to support acute pain management, particularly in areas of patient-controlled, regional, and epidural analgesia techniques.
APS provides the training for clinical staff, and is responsible for monitoring the efficiency, safety and skill of techniques used to offer multimodal, effective analgesia.
The Acute Pain Service is here to educate, facilitate, and support effective post-operative pain control. (APS) has a responsibility to reduce opiate consumption, to avoid on-going dependence and addiction, as well as improve the patient experience.
APS will support and advise on providing analgesia for complex non-surgical pain, manage vulnerable service users and refer, at the earliest time, to speciality teams to ensure best outcomes are achieved for patients.
We work closely with surgical and medical teams, ward areas, critical care, pharmacy, physiotherapy, department of clinical effectiveness, ITU, theatres, palliative care, substance misuse practitioners, and anaesthetics department.
Contact and location
The Acute Pain Service,
Department of Anaesthesia,
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Tel: +44 (0)1926 495 321 Ext 4353
Related links
- Analgesia - mild-to-moderate pain - NICE
- Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence - ANZCA Institutional Research Repository
- The Royal College of Anaesthetists
