Integrated Pain Service

Pain Service

Our mission is to “Stop Pain Hurting”

The Pain Service at BC Children’s Hospital provides expert pain management for newborns, infants, children and youth from across Canada.

The Pain Service includes the Acute Pain Service (APS) and the Complex Pain Service (CPS).

For information about APS and CPS:

What we do

For pain management and other pain-related issues:

For telephone, fax and email contact information:

Acute and Complex Pain – what’s the difference?

Acute pain: a protective mechanism that safeguards injured tissue from ongoing damage.

Complex pain: a dynamic phenomenon caused by numerous changes occurring in the peripheral and/or central nervous system.

The changes of complex pain:

occur in response to disease, injury and/or loss of function;
are influenced by the nature, duration and original cause of the pain as well as the age, sex, psychological make-up and perhaps the genetic susceptibility of the child;
often result in abnormal activity in the pain messaging system that continues irrespective of the original cause;
are reversible initially, but without timely and appropriate management, the changes can persist.

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PHSA improves the health of British Columbians by seeking province-wide solutions to specialized health care needs in collaboration with BC health authorities and other partners. For more information, visit http://www.phsa.ca

PHSA agencies include: BC Cancer Agency, BC Centre for Disease Control, BC Children’s Hospital and Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, BC Mental Health & Addiction Services, BC Provincial Renal Agency, BC Transplant, BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre, and Cardiac Services BC.