What are the types of post surgical pain treatments?
Depending on your needs following surgery, you may receive one or more of the
post surgical pain treatment options listed below:

• Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) - The patient pushes a button and self administers low doses of intravenous narcotic medication via a pump for the relief of pain. Most commonly used for postoperative pain relief.
• Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia - An epidural or intrathecal catheter is inserted, and local anesthetic or narcotics are used via a pump to deliver small doses to the spinal nerves. Most commonly used for obstetrical procedures and for postoperative pain in the lower body.
• Nerve block injections - Nerve block injections are used to relieve pain in organs or regions of the body. These nerves are blocked using a nerve block injection of anesthetic or anti-inflammatory medicine to block the pain signal coming from a certain area of the body or to reduce inflammation in that area.
• Pain medications
• Non-Opioid (non-narcotic) Analgesics – relieve mild to moderate pain and are a milder form of a pain killer
• Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID medications) – used to treat inflammation and mild to moderate pain.
• Opioid analgesics - to relieve moderate to severe pain.


For additional information post surgical pain please call Southeast Pain Care to schedule an appointment with one of our pain management doctors.