Patient Information

Post-Surgical Pain Management
Pain relief after surgery is a vital recovery process.
Good pain control will ensure a faster return to normal activities and comfortable recovery

Narcotics:

Opioids or narcotics (morphine or codeine) has been widely used to treat pain for post-surgical patients.

These are main good option to relief pain however as opioids side effects your brain and body and some patients may have side effects such as nausea, vomiting, breathing difficulty and constipation.

These are the side effects will slow down your recovery and make you bed bounded and have difficulty to eat and walk.

Local Anaesthetics:

Local anaesthetics have been widely used by surgeons and dentist for many years and these medication works to numb your nerve sensation on the surgical site with lesser risk of unpleasant side effects.

PainComforter – Relief pain to where it matters

Paincomforter is a system that delivers local anaesthetics continuously directly into or near your surgical wound to relief your pain after surgery. This will reduce narcotics usage and help you get better pain control than just taking narcotics alone.

The system works independently and does not require any action and the system will deliver the medication continuously over 2-5 days through a small tubing. This tubing will be inserted by your surgeons during your surgical procedure.

Potential Benefits of PainComforter:

1. Comfortable recovery process
2. Early Ambulation
3. Faster return to normal activities
4. Early discharge from hospital
5. Better pain control compare just taking narcotic alone
6. Reduced nausea, vomiting, and other opioid related side effects.

• Increase in pain
• Fever, chills, sweats
• Bowel or bladder changes
• Difficulty breathing
• Redness, warmth, discharge or excessive bleeding from catheter site
• Pain, swelling or a large bruise around the catheter site
• Dizziness, lighteadedness
• Blurred vision
• Ringing, buzzing in your ears
• Metal taste in your mouth
• Numbness and/or tingling around your mouth, finger or toes
• Drowsiness
• Confusion

Numbness – You may experienced numbness near or at the surgery site

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Q: Do I need to take other pain medication other than this?
A: Individual response to pain its different and your doctor will prescribed other medication to
manage your pain after surgery.
Do take medication as instructed by your doctor.

2. Q: How long does the medication lasts?
A: It will last 2-5 days and the duration is determined by your doctors

3. Q: How does the medication deliver
A: Kindly avoid cold or hot therapy near or at the surgical site and avoid contact with water for
the pump and follow your doctor instruction