Changi General Hospital, Singapore’s Department of Anaesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care is responsible for providing anaesthesia for all types of surgery in the operating theatres. In addition, the anaesthetists manage the critically ill patients in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU).
The hospital is equipped with anaesthetic machines and sophisticated monitoring systems to ensure the safety of patients under anaesthesia. All our operating theatres and recovery rooms are well equipped with air and fluid warming systems to reduce patients’ discomfort and the risk of hypothermia. We have also introduced heat and moisture exchanger systems with bacterial and viral filtration systems.
Our anaesthesiologists are well trained both locally and overseas in various subspecialties of anaesthetic care. The hospital provides perioperative anaesthesia care for patients undergoing:
Post-surgery pain relief is managed by a dedicated team of doctors and nurses using various modalities of treatment and advanced equipment. To help patients who have undergone major surgery to control and minimise their pain, we offer Patient Control Analgesia (PCA) with opioid medication, Epidural Analgesia and other types of nerve blocks.
Changi General Hospital, Singapore’s Anaesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Department also provides a chronic pain service for patients who suffer from persistent pain, for example:
- Chronic low back pain, thoracic, and neck pain
- Sciatica and other spinal nerve problems / spinal injuries
- Muscle pain (sprain, fibromyalgia, muscular tender points)
- Neuralgia (nerve-related pain problems like shingles, diabetic neuropathy or injured peripheral nerves)
- Osteoarthritis affecting joints (hip, knee, ankle, shoulder, elbow, wrist)
- Cancer pain
Referrals to the chronic pain specialists are by appointment only. Treatment options may include:
- Oral pain medication
- Advice and instruction on exercises and other forms of physiotherapies
- Education and advice about pain issues (anxiety, depression, coping with pain, rehabilitation advice, medication review)
- Epidural injection
- Facet joint injection and facet joint denervation
- Nerve root blocks
- Peripheral nerve blocks
- Sympathetic blocks (stellate ganglion, coeliac plexus, lumbar sympathectomy)
- Trigger point injections (including botox)
Changi General Hospital has an Acute Pain Service (APS) to enhance the management of acute pain after major surgery or trauma. This service is co-ordinated by our specialist anaesthetist and an acute pain service nurse, in collaboration with other members of the Anaesthesiology Department and supported by surgical colleagues, ward nursing staff, physiotherapists and pharmacists.
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