Useful Information

Pain teams- Acute Pain Service and Chronic Pain Services

Palliative care team - Hospital teams or community services (Hospice)

How and when to refer?? ... look at local DHB Intra-net sites or Hospice websites for more information

Click on link below:

Hospice NZ website - to locate local community hospice team

Click on these links:

Best Practice Advocacy Centre (BPAC) article - oxycodone use

Essential Pain Management Website

International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

IASP Educational Resources

NZ Ministry of Health information about Palliative Care including Liverpool Care Pathway

Treating Phantom Limb Pain with Mirror Therapy

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)

This work has been based on the Essential Pain Management material written by Dr Roger Goucke and Dr Wayne Morriss which was adapted by Dr Linda Huggins for use in medical undergraduates.

Dr Kieran Davis ADHB, Fran James CMDHB, Dr Francois Stapelberg CMDHB, Dr Gwyn Lewis AUT, Dr Trevor Coe ADHB, Dr Susannah O'Sullivan UoA, Quality Use of Medications Team WDHB, Leah Hodgkinson CMDHB, Dawn Lee CMDHB, Dr Michal Kluger WDHB, Peter Burrell Medical Student, Medication Safety Service CMHB