
Pain Management
Compassionate Care While You Sleep
Residents rotate through the Acute Pain Service at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Anesthesia residents and faculty encounter adult and pediatric patients from all surgical specialties, treated with either Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA), if requested per consultation from the Primary Services, different opioids, epidural continuous (CEA) or patient controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA).
Options for treatment of patients consulted on for chronic pain or acute exacerbation of chronic pain of cancer, or pain of benign etiology, consist of the entire spectrum of pain treatment modalities, including optimization of oral medication, PCA systems, transdermal application, external or internal intraspinal infusion systems, peripheral and central as well as sympathetic nerve blocks, and intravenous infusion therapy. Residents perform under supervision all invasive procedures, with utilization of nerve stimulators and ultrasound:
Regional and Central Analgesic Techniques
- Caudal, lumbar and thoracic epidural catheter placement
- Peripheral and central somatic nerve blocks
- Tunneled catheter placements into various nerve sheaths
- TENS trials
It remains our goal to provide an educational and clinical experience that prepares the resident to function as a consultant in Pain Management in matters that will be encountered in future practice and related to:1) the management of patients with pain from cancer and chronic and acute pain of benign etiology, and 2) the management of patients in the perioperative period.
For more information, please contact Krishna Boddu, M.D. kboddu@mdanderson.org
Location & Contact
6431 Fannin Street,
MSB 5.020
Houston, Texas 77030
713.500.6200
713.500.6208 fax
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Our affiliates include the following:
Subspecialties
- Airway Management
- Bariatric Anesthesia
- Cardiovascular Anesthesia
- Intensive Care Unit
- Liver Transplant Anesthesia
- Neuroanesthesia
- Obstetric Anesthesia
- Orthopedic Anesthesia
- Pain Management
- Pediatric Anesthesia
- Post-Anesthesia Care
- Regional Anesthesia
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