Pain Service

The Pain Service looks after Acute Pain Management and Chronic Cancer Pain. Several consultants of the department are actively involved in pain management and rotate in the service on a monthly basis.

Acute Pain Service

The Acute pain service looks after post-operative pain after major surgeries and all other acute and acute on chronic pain conditions. Epidural analgesia and  Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) are employed to relieve pain.

The Pain team consists of a pain consultant, a pain nurse and a pain resident. Pain medications are reviewed and readjusted accordingly, with the goal of keeping the pain scores below three. APS strives to reduce the incidence of severe pain to less than 10% in the ward. During 2006 about 1250 patients were treated by APS for post-operative pain using PCA, Epidurals etc.

The Pain Clinic

The Pain Clinic at Tata Memorial Hospital is one of the oldest pain clinics in the country. More than 1000 patients were managed in the pain clinic in the year 2006 with an over 800 patients follow up.

Chronic Cancer pain is managed using a multimodal approach, ranging from the use of oral analgesics including NSAIDs, co-analgesics, various forms of morphine, trans dermal fentanyl patch to neurolytic nerve blocks given under fluoroscopic guidance.

The Pain Service actively supports and participates in the activities of the Palliative Care Clinic where treatment is offered for a variety of symptoms affecting those patients with advanced cancer

Pain Clinic Timings

Gereral OPD (No. 178 GJB Bldg.)
Timing 9.15am - 1.30 pm (Monday to Friday)

Private OPD (No. 39 Main Bldg.)
Timing 9.15am - 1.30 pm (Monday to Friday)

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