King Fahd Medical City organizes an awareness day for treating surgical pain King Fahd Medical City monitors a million-riyals for the second-innovation-health-competition. Pulse-SPA Magazine: The King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh, represented by the Department of Anesthesia and Operations, organized in cooperation with the Department Pharmaceutical Services, yesterday “Pain Awareness Day” in the presence of the Associate Executive Director of Medical Departments, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Obaid, and Director of Anesthesia and Operations Department, Dr. Mazen Al-Suhaibani.
In a statement on this occasion, Dr. Khaled Al-Shuaibi, a consultant in pain and anesthesia in King Fahd Medical City, explained the importance of treating post-operative pain with ideal and effective methods, in order to measure pain and follow it up with patients, indicating that deficiency in pain treatment after surgical operations may not May God allow great complications on the patient’s health, including increased heart effort and the occurrence of cardiac circulation failure or a heart attack.
He stated that the patient undergoes a pain evaluation process by the anesthesiologist and discusses the ideal methods with him to control post-operative pain, noting that the evaluation and measurement of post-operative pain is an important basis for pain management and treatment.
On the methods used to treat pain, Dr. Khaled Al-Shuaibi said: They are done by educating the patient medically about ways to deal with pain, in addition to medicines and analgesics such as a group of morphine and its derivatives, anti-inflammatory drugs and sedative drugs that are given either through intravenous fluids or orally.
Visitors to King Fahd Medical City and its auditors witnessed the awareness day for treating pain, as they learned more information about the pain that a person experiences after surgeries, their impact on health, and ways to prevent them.
