Our department provides anaesthetic and pain management services to the Kowloon East Cluster (KEC). We are an accredited specialist training centre for both Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine.
 
Our operating complex comprised of 13 operating theatres and provides 24-hour emergency, obstetrics and acute pain services. Our surgical specialties include orthopaedics, head and neck, hepatobiliary, breast, upper gastrointestinal, colorectal, vascular, maxillofacial, ear, nose and throat, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynaecology and pain medicine. Our one-stop Day Surgery Centre has the largest number of attendances of any unit in Hong Kong.
 
KEC Pain Management Centre provides integrated pain managements for various intractable chronic pain conditions, including cancer pain, acute post-traumatic and post-operative pain conditions. Our services include multi-disciplinary pain consultation services, pain management nurse clinic, STEPS pain management programme and advanced interventional procedures (including cryotherapy, radiofrequency lesioning and intrathecal analgesia).
 
In 2022, our Endoscopy Centre provided 10,045 endoscopic procedures of which 5,780 were gastroscopy, 1,930 were colonoscopy, 707 were endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography, 355 were endoscopic ultrasonography and 1,273 were others. In 2023, our Endoscopy Centre began to use Robotic Receptionist. In addition, our Endoscopy Centre implemented Dashboard Information Display System, RFID Endoscope Tracing and Tracking System and HEPA Filter Scope Store Cabinet.

Our Pain team comprises of pain specialist, anaesthesiologist, orthopaedic surgeon, rheumatologist, palliative physician, pain nurses, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, clinical psychologist, social worker, clerical and supporting staff.

STEPS Multi-disciplinary Pain Programme

This is an intensive 14 days 100-hr pain self-management Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) programme.

Ho AM, Lim HS, Yim AP, Karmakar MK, Lee TW. The resolution of ST segment depressions after high right thoracic paravertebral block during general anesthesia. Anesth Analg. 2002 Jul;95(1):227-8

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Huey S Lim, Phoon P Chen, Tony C M Wong, Tony Gin, Emma Wong, Ide S F Chan, Josephine Chu. Validation of the Chinese version of pain self-efficacy questionnaire. Anesth Analg 2007 Apr;104(4):918-23.

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Wong WS, Lam HM, Chow YF, Chen PP, Lim HS, Wong S, Fielding R. The effects of anxiety sensitivity, pain hypervigilance, and pain catastrophizing on quality of life outcomes of patients with chronic pain: a preliminary, cross-sectional analysis. Qual Life Res. 2014 Oct;23(8):2333-41

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Wong WS, Lam HM, Chen PP, Chow YF, Wong S, Lim HS, Jensen MP, Fielding R. The fear avoidance model of chronic pain: assessing the role of neuroticism and negative affect in pain catastrophizing using structural equation modeling. Int J Behav Med. 2015 Feb;22(1):118-31

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TL Chow, WY Kwan, KP Tsui, WM Yip, CKL Chu, KH Njo, HS Lim. Day surgery for total or completion thyroidectomy: The first report in Hong Kong. Surgical Practice 2019; 23(4):95-100

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D C Y Liu, T H Koo, J K K Wong, Y H Wong, K S C Fung, Y Chan, H S Lim. Adapting re-usable elastomeric respirators to utilize anaesthesia circuit filters using a 3D-printed adaptor – a potential alternative to address N95 shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anaesthesia 2020 Aug;75(8):1022-1027. 

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Regan W K Wong, H S Lim, O K Chan, K L Leung. Anaesthetic Management of a Patient with Suspected Tracheal Amyloidosis. Update in Anaesthesia, WFSA-D-21-00014, 117-120

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D H T Wong, E W H Tang, A Njo, C K L Chu, S K Y Chau, T L Chow, H S Lim, K S C Fung, K K W Li. Risk stratification protocol to reduce consumption of personal protective equipment for emergency surgeries during COVID-19 pandemic. Hong Kong Med J 2020 Jun;26(3):252–4