London Pain School, a report from St. George’s Hospital in several scenes

Abstract

The St. George’s Hospital in London is one of the largest hospitals in Great Britain, and it is the main teaching hospital of the University of London. The team of the Anaesthetic Department includes over 100 physicians, inter alia, patients with acute pain and post-operative pain. Some of the physicians work in an excellent Pain Clinic, which specializes, among other things, in an invasive treatment of pain. The Clinic has at its disposal a modern procedure room with, among other things, a C-arm X-ray machine and an ultrasound machine, which enables a full range of invasive treatment of chronic pain. The article presents the experience of four Polish physicians who spent their fellowships in the St. George’s Hospital, during which they observed the work of the anaesthetic team and the team of the Pain Clinic.