Abstracts 2008 - 06

Ella van Raders
Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist Pain Management
East & North Herts NHS Trust

Ella van Raders is Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pain Management at East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.  She leads a knowledgeable and dedicated team of nurses, as part of a multi disciplinary group, towards the shared goal of excellence in pain management.  Previously she was Research Manager at the Pain Research Group, Barts and The London NHS Trust.  She obtained her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Nursing from City University London, and is currently continuing her passion for investigating healthcare professionals’ attitudes to pain management through a part time PhD program.

ABSTRACT

Innovations in Postoperative Pain Control

Patient controlled analgesia (PCA) has since its inception become one of the mainstays of post operative pain management.  We are all familiar with the modality, as well as the adverse effects of the analgesia and the problems associated with hardware required.  Recently a new innovation has been developed that may offer advantages over the traditional PCA.
I will discuss IONSYS, a method of providing Fentanyl via a patient controlled analgesia system using iontophoresis.  I will introduce the clinical trial data looking at efficacy, safety and ‘ease of care’, as well as a brief investigation of the implications of its introduction into a hospital setting.