Acute Pain at Royal Derby Hospital
The Acute Pain team mainly help patients who are experiencing pain related to an operation or injury.
The team is made up of four specialist pain nurses with three consultant anaesthetists.
Some discomfort is normal after an operation. Pain medication helps patients to move around more easily to do their daily self-care tasks. All patients experiencing pain should have routine painkillers prescribed by their ward doctors. Some of these medications will be given regularly, and others are prescribed 'as needed', so patients can ask for additional pain relief if the medication is not enough.
The Acute Pain team helps patients who are unable to take pain medications that are prescribed, patients already on pain medication for chronic pain, or patients whose pain is not eased by the pain medication they have been prescribed.
Acute pain management
If you are having an operation at Royal Derby Hospital, please watch the video below, which explains how your pain will be managed, and what you can do to ensure your pain relief is effective.