Treatment and Interventions

Medical

• If there are changes to medications, we  write to the patient’s GP and together work towards altering the medication plan.The GP remains the lead prescriber
• Our pain nurse specialist phones each patient who has changes to their medication and works with the patient to ensure best outcome in terms of doses and level of activity.

Interventions

• If an intervention is planned this is discussed at the initial appointment and an information sheet will be given.
• A patient consent will be completed
• An appointment will be made for (usually) a Tuesday afternoon
• Patients can eat a normal diet prior to most procedures.  If fasting is needed this will be discussed with individual patients.
• Patients are advised to continue all medications.  
• If we are undertaking major nerve blocks we may request that blood thinning medication is stopped beforehand (these include warfarin, clopidogrel, riveroxiban and clexane)
• All patients will need someone to transport them home