Caudal Epidural
Dr Sonia Wartan
Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine
MBChB, FCARCSI
Specialist interests
Cervical facet joints blocks, including atlanto-occipital joint block, Coccygeal injections, Intramuscular block, Intramuscular blocks for pelvic and abdominal pain, Intraoral alveolar nerves and mandibular nerve block, Management of back pain, Mandibular nerve blocks, Nerve root injections, Pain clinics and pain management programmes, Paravertabral block, Piriformis block, Pudendal nerve blocks, Sacral injections
Professional bio
I am a consultant in Pain Medicine with over 20 years of experience. I undertook my higher training at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals in London with additional 2 years conducting research and academic work in Pain Medicine. To meet my professional interests, I have visited various centres of excellence in Pain Medicine in Europe and the United States gaining further knowledge in treating patients with chronic pain in general and pelvic pain as further subspecialty. In addition to my NHS work, I have been working in private practice since 1998 and at St. Joseph’s private hospital since 2001.
I use various modalities of treatment in managing chronic pain, including different specialist medications regimes, physical interventional techniques and injections which are utilized in the context of a multidisciplinary team including specialist nurses, physiotherapists and psychologists. In private practice, I use this gold standard model for my patients.
As a consultant I have been the lead of Pain Medicine services at Epsom and St. Helier University Hospitals in London between 1998-2001 and later of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board between 2011-2015 when I achieved the progression of the service to an international standard. I have moved as a consultant to Wales in 2001 to join my husband and has been working at Royal Gwent Hospital since. From 2004, I have dedicated my whole professional time to Pain Medicine becoming one of two full-time Pain Medicine consultants in this field in Wales.
Since my appointment as a consultant at Royal Gwent Hospital, I have developed many new services in Pain Medicine. I have established Chronic Pelvic Pain Management Multidisciplinary Clinic in 2004, this is the first and the only one in Wales. I have developed this service to a comprehensive international level. I have gained a wide experience in the field of Pelvic Pain visiting internationally renowned centres including the Pelvic and Urologic Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic in Nantes, France. I regularly lecture as invited speaker in this field nationally. I also present nationally and internationally in the field of Pain Medicine.
I am active in teaching and training the next generation of Anaesthetists and Pain Medicine doctors. I have been the Local Pain Medicine Educational Supervisor of the Royal Gwent Hospital and the Module lead of the Pain Medicine Training of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board between 2004-2019. I am a founder and lecturer of many Pain Medicine training aspects in the Welsh School of Anaesthesia.
I have been an active invited member of various Welsh Government health improvement professional working groups publishing documents on the Welsh Government website to improve health service provision for the people in Wales.
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