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Press release — Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre launches innovative acute pain service
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PRESS R E L E A S E - N U F F I E L D ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE LAUNCHES INNOVATIVE ACUTE PAIN SERVICE Postoperative pain control is an essential component of patient care, following orthopaedic surgery, for both quality and cost reasons. The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre has recognized the importance of effective pain control by developing an innovative Acute Pain Service. Medical leadership with the appointment of Dr David Mason (Consultant Anaesthetist) has now complimented the excellent work undertaken by our Acute Pain Nurse, Sarah Richards, over the past 4 years as the hospital's Acute Pain Service Coordinator. The role of the service is to develop guidelines and standards for good clinical practice in pain relief, ensuring that Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre patients can recover from their operations as painfree as possible. The service provides training to
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staff, recommends the best equipment and drugs to use and provides specialist support and advice to nurses and doctors on the wards for the most complex patients. The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre is justly proud of the achievements of its Acute Pain Service so far and is keen to formally launch the service to raise awareness of the importance of pain control following surgery and to explain the roles of the new team to clinical colleagues in the Trust, local GPs, and our public and patients. Press will have an opportunity to interview former patients who have been under the care of the Acute Pain Service at the launch day and may wish to visit ward areas to interview patients currently receiving pain relief using the latest technology. For further enquiries please contact: Sarah Richards, Acute Pain Nurses, on 01865 227504 and ask for bleep 505.
Peter Davis, Editor-in-Chief
PRESS R E L E A S E - N U F F I E L D ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE LAUNCHES INNOVATIVE ACUTE PAIN SERVICE Postoperative pain control is an essential component of patient care, following orthopaedic surgery, for both quality and cost reasons. The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre has recognized the importance of effective pain control by developing an innovative Acute Pain Service. Medical leadership with the appointment of Dr David Mason (Consultant Anaesthetist) has now complimented the excellent work undertaken by our Acute Pain Nurse, Sarah Richards, over the past 4 years as the hospital's Acute Pain Service Coordinator. The role of the service is to develop guidelines and standards for good clinical practice in pain relief, ensuring that Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre patients can recover from their operations as painfree as possible. The service provides training to
~f Orthopaedic Nursing (1998)2, 1179 1998HarcourtBrace& Co. Ltd
staff, recommends the best equipment and drugs to use and provides specialist support and advice to nurses and doctors on the wards for the most complex patients. The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre is justly proud of the achievements of its Acute Pain Service so far and is keen to formally launch the service to raise awareness of the importance of pain control following surgery and to explain the roles of the new team to clinical colleagues in the Trust, local GPs, and our public and patients. Press will have an opportunity to interview former patients who have been under the care of the Acute Pain Service at the launch day and may wish to visit ward areas to interview patients currently receiving pain relief using the latest technology. For further enquiries please contact: Sarah Richards, Acute Pain Nurses, on 01865 227504 and ask for bleep 505.
Peter Davis, Editor-in-Chief