Pain Management Division

Dr. Blau heads the Pain Management Division. Other members include Dr. Dogra, Dr. Buttar, Dr. Hernandez, and Dr. Longphre.  The division provides comprehensive care for both acute and chronic pain syndromes.

The Acute Pain Service provides daily management of patients with postoperative, post-traumatic, and other types of acute pain requiring specialized interventions such as epidural analgesia, other regional anesthetic techniques, or complex pharmacological management. The service does not provide routine management for patients on IV-PCA postoperatively, but does so when consulted by the primary service. Support is also provided to the operating rooms for placement of epidural catheters and regional blocks for surgery preoperatively.

The Chronic Pain Service provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary patient care at the Anesthesiology Pain Management Center and the Spine Center. These are hospital-based outpatient clinics for the management of chronic and cancer pain. It draws upon the expertise of our faculty as well as consultants from dentistry, psychiatry, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, rheumatology and physical medicine and rehabilitation and other specialists. Our dedicated clinic facility includes specialized procedure rooms with state of the art monitoring, interview rooms, C-arm fluoroscopy, quantitative sensory testing (current perception threshold), and psychologists office on-site.

In addition, the chronic pain staff provides consultations for complex inpatient pain management problems, and daily rounds are performed.