Consulting Pain Services
Editors: Mercede Erickson, MD, Camille Adajar, MD
Faculty Editor: Brandon Pruett, MD
Acute Pain Service (APS)/Perioperative Consult Service
- If refractory to multimodal pain regimen above, consider consulting APS for:
- Acute pain due to surgery in the last 7-10 days
- Acute pain due to new trauma
- APS also provides services for patients who are receiving regional anesthetic techniques (nerve blocks, nerve catheters)
- Perioperative Service is a subset that implements enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) for specific surgical patients who qualify
Consulting chronic pain service (CPS)
- Service for patients with chronic pain or cancer-related pain experiencing acute flare that is NOT related to surgery or trauma
- Examples: IBD flare, chronic pancreatitis, sickle cell pain crisis
- Consultation available Monday through Friday 7 a.m.-3 p.m.
- The Transitional Pain Service (TPS) is a division of CPS: Evaluate chronic pain patients preoperatively in clinic or before hospital discharge for outpatient pain management recommendations after surgery
