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Members of the SingHealth Group

Changi General Hospital KK Womens and Childrens Hospital Singapore General Hospital National Cancer Centre National Dental Centre National Heart Centre National Neuroscience Institute Singapore National Eye CentreSingHealth Polyclinics

Pain Management Centre

Dr Tan Kian Hian MBBS, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA DIRECTOR

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Singapore General Hospital Restructured hospital and part of

SingHealth

Largest hospital in Singapore

1600 beds

8000 staff

30 Specialty Services

SGH accounts for about a quarter of

the total acute hospital beds in thepublic sector and about one-fifth of

acute beds nationwide.

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Quick JCI Facts of SGH

SGH became first hospital in the region to include Pain

as the fifth vital sign in 2004

SGH achieved Joint Commission International (JCI)

accreditation. SGH is the largest teaching hospital in

Asia to be accorded such a recognition in 2005. Recertified in 2011

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History of SGH Pain Management

Centre (PMC)

Acute and Chronic Pain Services started

in 1980s.

Interventional Procedures started in

1998

Proposal to set up Pain Management

Centre in 2005

Virtual centre set up and KPI monitoredin 2006

PMC started operations in Nov 2007

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Only One-Stop Pain Centre in

Singapore

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Services Provided Within

the Centre Pain Medicine and

Interventions

Spine Surgery

Neurosurgery

Psychiatry

Psychology

Acupuncture

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Infrastructure

Outpatient Clinic

Procedure Room-X-ray Machine

-Radiofrequency

Machine

Recovery Area

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Types of Patients Seen

Chronic Pain

-Back Pain

-Neck Pain

-Neuropathic (Nerve)

Pain

Cancer Pain

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Procedures

Epidural SteroidInjections

Neuroplasty

Nucleoplasty

Biaculoplasty

Spinal Cord Stimulators

Nerve Blocks

-Coeliac Plexus

-Stellate Ganglion

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Pain Related Programs

Pain

Management

Programme(CBT)

Pacing

Programme

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Scientific Workshops

Cadaver Workshops

held at the experimental

laboratory oninterventional

procedures in Pain

Management.

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Teaching and Training

First centre outside of Australia and

New Zealand to be accredited with the

Faculty of Medicine ANZCA.

Medical Officer rotated on a 2 weeklyprogram to PMC.

Collaboration with James Cook

University Psychology

Advanced Nursing Diploma

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Fellows from All Over the

World Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

India

Thailand

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Educational Activities

General

Practitioners

CME Program

Public Forum

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Thank you!