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Guidelines for nursing staff administering hourly opioids in Clinical Areas.

Guidance for effective assessment and documentation of pain.Keywords: Pain assessment; pain scoring; pain tools; pain documentation.

Guidelines for nursing staff caring for patients who have received a single dose of spinal or intrathecal anaesthetic of Fentanyl or Diamorphine.

Guidelines for nursing staff caring for patients with an epidural infusion.Keywords: Epidural, Epidural infusion, Local anaesthetic toxicity, Motor, and sensory block.

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) covering the pathway and management of patients being implanted with an intrathecal medical device.Keywords: Intrathecal, Palliative Care, Pain, Opioid, Spasticity.

Guidelines for nursing care of patients with Intravenous Ketamine Infusions.Keywords: Ketamine, Intravenous infusion.

Guidelines for nursing staff administering Intravenous Morphine in Clinical Areas.

Guidance for nursing and medical staff at RCHT, to support the use of ketamine as part of a patient's pain control regime in the treatment of chronic pain or pain in palliative patients.Keywords: Chronic pain, Neuropathic pain, Care, Health care, Medical care, Patient care, Palliative care, Anaesthesia, Analgesia, Pain management, Products, Medicinal products, Drugs, Analgesics, Ketamine.

Clinical guidelines for the care of a patient with a nerve or wound catheter and the administration of local anaesthetic infusion/infiltration/bolus injection.Keywords: Local anaesthetic, nerve catheter, local anaesthetic infusion, local anaesthetic bolus, wound infiltration, elastomeric, ESP, rectus sheath catheter, RSC.

Process to be followed for all interventional pain procedures undertaken in the Pain Intervention room (clinical imaging department).Keywords: Pain, LocSSIP, botulinum toxin injection, botox, cryotherapy, epidural, intrathecal, facet denervation, lidocaine infusion, radiofrequency lesioning, spinal injections, sacro-iliac joint injections, stellate ganglion block, sympathectomy, trigger point injection, nerve root block.

Standard Operating Procedure covering the pathway and management of patients being implanted with a neuromodulation spinal cord stimulator device.Keywords: Spinal cord, stimulator, neuromodulation, pain, implantation.

Intravenous opioids can be effective for the rapid control of acute pain, and for titration of opioid dosing. This policy provides guidance on the use of intravenous opioids.

Nursing protocol for use of patient controlled analgesia (PCA) - Adults.

Guideline of how to refer to Pain Services for in-patient review.Keywords: Pain services, Pain team, Acute pain, Referral, Chronic Pain, Complex Pain, Post-operative pain, Persistent pain.

This policy outlines the safe process for administration of botulinum neuro toxin within the pain services.