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About Dr Maartje Tulp
MB ChB 1999 Otago; FANZCA 2011; FFPMANZCA 2017
Anaesthetist provide high quality anaesthesia services in a range of surgical areas. Their main job is also to be responsible at the same time for the safety and well-being of the patient in the operating theatre. This involves supporting a patient's vital signs, ensuring the patient is hydrated, warm and comfortable at the conclusion of the procedure. In addition, anaesthetist have a range of practice which extends beyond anaesthesia for surgery to include pain management and intensive care. Anaesthetist adjust the doses of the anaesthesia inducing drugs indivually on a patient by patient basis. Pain medicine physician is the biopsychosocial assessment and management of persons with complex pain, especially when an underlying condition is not directly treatable. The scope of pain medicine supplements that of other medical disciplines, and utilises interdisciplinary skills to promote improved quality-of-life through improved physical, psychological and social function. Pain medicine prescribes medication, co-ordinates rehabilitative services, performs pain relieving procedures.
Practice Locations
- Practice name Southern DHB Anaesthesia - Otago
- Address Dunedin Hospital
- Suburb or City Dunedin, NZ
- Region Otago
- Country New Zealand
- Practice name Southern DHB Persistent Pain Service
- Address Dunedin Hospital, 201 Great King Street, Dunedin 9017
- Suburb or City Dunedin, NZ
- Region Otago
- Country New Zealand