Pain Management UCLH Members meeting October 2014 Ali Mofeez - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Pain Management UCLH Members meeting

October 2014

Ali Mofeez Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia Anna Mandeville Senior Pain Psychologist Viki Mitchell Chair of Pain Steering Group and DCD for Theatres

Pain Steering Group Chair

Define Pain

Difficult

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Pain

• IASP Definition (1986): An

unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual

• r potential tissue damage or

described in terms of such damage

• Acute Pain
• Chronic Pain

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Acute Pain

• ‘Good’ pain
• Protective, useful, necessary for survival
• Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (CIP) or

Congenital Analgesia

• Rare syndrome where person cannot feel pain
• Children need close vigilance-injuries, burns, fractures, self-

mutilation

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Chronic Pain

• Definition: pain persisting for more than 3

months

• Not useful, complex
• What is prevalence of chronic pain in the

population?

• 20-30% usually quoted
• 8-60% (Elliott et al, Lancet 1999)
• 80-85% of those Age>65 (Soares et al, 2010)

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Impact of Chronic Pain on Patients’ Quality of Life

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Chronic Pain: a disease not a symptom

• Persistent Pain: A disease entity
• MJ Cousins
• J Pain and Symptom Management 2007
• Message: Chronic pain can impact on many aspects of a patient’s

life

• Function, daily activities
• Mood, thoughts, emotions, behaviour
• Relationships (friends and family)
• interests, hobbies
• Employment, finances
• Overall Quality of Life

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Who treats pain?

• Acute pain- All specialities with patient contact (GP, A/E,

surgeons, physicians, psychiatrists)

• Chronic pain
• GP
• Pain Clinic
• Rheumatology
• Palliative care
• Haematology
• Neurology
• Complimentary/Homeopathic medicine

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UCLH Acute Pain Services

• Primarily for inpatients
• Acute pain teams at various hospitals

within the trust

• UCH, NHNN, HH

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Acute Pain Services

• Consultants and nurses, daily ward rounds
• Heavily reliant on nurses/CNS
• Mainly for post-operative pain
• Oral medication, PCA’s, epidurals
• Mostly straightforward to manage
• But also many complex patients e.g. acute-on-

chronic pain

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UCLH Chronic Pain services

• Primarily provided on an outpatient basis
• Inpatients at UCH and NHNN
• UCH: 2-3 ward rounds per week
• NHNN: 1 ward round per week
• Outpatient services primarily at the Pain

Management Centre , NHNN

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Where are we?

The Pain Management Centre, NHNN

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Except…

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What do we do?

• Historically Chronic pain services started

by anaesthetists as they were already dealing with pain following surgery

• Hence why to this day most chronic pain

doctors are anaesthetists

• Treatment was very medical
• No psychologists or physiotherapists

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What do we do?

• Now moved away from the medical

model

• Towards a Multidisciplinary Team

approach

• Doctor, psychologist, physiotherapist, nurse

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Why?

• Medically we struggle to improve patients

(injections, medication effective for some but not for all, side-effects)

• Curing chronic pain is often not possible
• Medical model does not work (at the moment!)
• But also we know that pain is influenced by

psychosocial and behavioural factors

• Addressing these factors can help pain

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Chronic Pain Therapies

• Pain Interventions (injections,

medication)- Doctors

• Pain Management strategies- Primarily

delivered by psychologists and physiotherapists

• But all team members should promote pain

management

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Pain Management Team

• Psychologists, Physiotherapists, Nurses
• 1 to 1 appointments
• Group pain management programmes
• Mostly outpatient, but some inpatient

programs

• CBT, ACT, Mindfulness

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Overall Aim

• Not necessarily curing pain or a large

reduction in pain intensity

• Instead focussing on how best to live

with pain

• Maintaining or improving function,

improving Quality of Life despite the presence of pain

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The Future

• Pain in the community, primary care
• Traditional pain clinic patients (MSK pain, back and neck pain,

Sciatic pain) are now being managed in community services

• Centres such as NHNN moving towards specialised pain services
• Complex pain
• Cancer pain (terminal and cured)
• Abdominopelvic pain
• Pain associated with neurological disorders
• Neuromodulation, SCS
• Facial pain
• Headache
• Pain associated with haematological disorders
• Inpatient chronic pain services

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Current Projects

• Inpatient chronic pain services
• Cancer pain service

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Inpatient chronic pain services

• UCH currently staffed for 2-3 ward rounds

per week

• Doctors only, No

psychologist/physiotherapist

• Complex patients, long inpatients stay
• Need to improve the service:
• More staff: psych/physio involvt, daily wardrounds
• Improve outcome, patient satisfaction, reduce

hospital stay

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Intervention Oncology Service (IOS)

• UCH is a major cancer referral centre
• Cancer patients very often have pain

(>70%)

• Usually managed with oral analgesics
• But increasing numbers need

interventions

• Eg Intrathecal Pump, nerve blocks
• Work in Progress!

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