Services & Facilities
Cancer Pain Service
The Cancer Pain Service sees outpatients in the Pain Management Center, an advanced care center for the evaluation, follow-up and treatment of cancer or cancer-related pain, including acute and chronic pain. The Cancer Pain Service also provides consultation services to adjust the treatment plans of inpatients that experience pain related to their underlying disease.
The pain management team sees approximately 7,000 patients a year, and that number continues to grow as services expand.
Optimum pain control is achieved by:
- Formulating an individualized treatment plan specific to each patient's needs
- Using a combination of pain management strategies such as non-pharmacologic methods, pharmacotherapy, nerve blocks, implants and other procedural pain management techniques, including vertebroplasty
- Practicing the continuum of care, beginning with a comprehensive assessment
- Frequent reassessment to adjust treatment plans when necessary
- A multidisciplinary approach involving professionals from various disciplines, including psychiatry, neurosurgery and interventional radiology
Postoperative Pain Service
The Postoperative Pain Service provides diligent and attentive care for inpatients after surgery 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Phone: 713-745-2074
Fax: 713-745-0177
24-Hour Pager: (713) 404-2264
By providing 24-hour coverage at the bedside to address pain as it arises, we make educating patients and their families about pain management our first priority. Our goals are to:
- Formulate an individualized treatment plan for each patient that utilizes the latest in epidural and intravenous patient-controlled analgesia techniques
- Monitor patients on a continual basis to maintain comfort levels and to reduce any side effects or complication risks
- Educate patients and their families to optimally manage post-surgical pain
- Listen to our patients, to recognize their needs and desires and to assist them in controlling their pain
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