PCH provides the only specialist anaesthesia and acute pain medicine service for children and adolescents in Western Australia.
Our work involves assessment, administration and monitoring of paediatric anaesthesia to ensure that patients are safe and comfortable before, during and after their surgery.
We also provide pain management services to help relieve the shorter-term discomfort that children may experience following surgical procedures, injuries and other conditions.
Long-term relief of pain related to a child's chronic illness or injury is managed by the Complex Pain Service.
Engagement in a research program with other children's hospitals across the world, enabling our patients to benefit from advances in anaesthesia and pain medicine.
Most patients having surgery at PCH are assessed by anaesthetists on the day of the procedure. We also run a Pre-operative Anaesthesia Assessment Clinic for patients who are referred for review prior to the day of surgery.
The Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine team works across a range of wards and services at PCH.
If you have been referred to the Pre-operative Anaesthesia Assessment Clinic, this is located in Clinic A on the ground floor. See the PCH map.
HealthyWA information on Anaesthesia for children (external link).