Anesthesiology & Pain Management
Vision The Department of Anesthesiology and pain management at King Hussein Cancer Center is dedicated to serve patients through excellence in active clinical practice, research; and the education, training, and professional development of medical students, physicians, and allied health care providers.
Mission The Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management is committed to service, education, research and training in support of the patients at King Hussein Cancer center. We are dedicated to serve the needs of all the Services through excellence in active clinical practice, research, and the education, training, and professional development of medical students, physicians, and other allied health care providers.
Department Goals Provide anesthesia services to multiple specialties Provide acute and chronic pain management Develop data base for research in anesthesia and pain management.
Operational Hours Twenty four hours a day, seven day a week coverage based on highest standards.
Staff
Anesthesiologists (9)1) Hussein Abu Khudair (Assistant member) 2) Nafez Shelbayeh (Assistant member) 3) Waddah Takrouri (Assistant member) 4) Ghassan Sawaqed (Assistant member) 5) Esam Farhoud (Assistant member) 6) Hatem Al-Jaberi (Assistant member) 7) Munir Shawagfeh (Assistant member) 8) Ali Zahran (Instructor member)9) Ihsan Ghannam (Instructor member)
Anesthesia service physicians (5)1) Mahmoud Ramadan 2) Ashraf Darwish 3) Mohammad Salem 4) Walid Saedi 5) Ahmed Refai
All anesthesiologists are certified by the Jordan Medical Council. Young enthusiastic anesthesiologists are encouraged to seek further training outside Jordan in developed countries.
Anesthesia technicians (10) They are to help the anesthesiologists in and outside the operating room.
Administrative (1)
Research Activities:
In the form of audits
1) The prevalence of chronic pain after thoracotomies.
2) Pain management in the Bone Marrow Transplant unit
3) Acute pain management at KHCC Efficacy & safety (outcome measures)
4) Quality of life in cancer pain patient at KHCC.
5) Pain management protocol in ER
6) Time management in the OR
7) Oral Ketamine for muionsites