Articles: pain-clinics.
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Few studies demonstrate the impact of early aggressive analgesia with acute pain service (APS) involvement at combat support hospitals (CSHs) using real-time data. Collaboration between the British and the United States (US) Army led to a 3-month deployment of a US Army APS to Camp Bastion, the main British military base in southern Afghanistan, from April to July 2009. ⋯ Findings from this quality of pain care study show that aggressive multimodal analgesia interventions by an APS in a CSH is associated with decreased pain intensity and increased pain relief.
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The primary goal of this investigation was to survey military health care professionals at a Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, regarding their perceptions of care delivered by an anesthesiologist-directed acute pain service (APS) at a British Combat Support Hospital (CSH)-Role 3. ⋯ Overall, the majority of military health care survey responders indicated support for an APS team as part of a CSH care, and confirmed its contributions to improving trauma care.