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Book SynopsisA comprehensive exploration of potential complications arising from interventional pain therapies.
In Complications of Pain-Relieving Procedures: An Illustrated Guide, a team of distinguished pain specialists delivers a straightforward, extensively illustrated, and step-by-step guide to managing complications arising out of pain-relieving procedures and interventions. The book offers essential assistance to physicians by combining a wide range of potential complications into a single, comprehensive resource suited to quick review in real time. It will help readers determine the clinical steps necessary to avoid long-term consequences for patients.
This illustrated reference contains numerous images of the possible complications of specific procedures. Each chapter includes discussions of the anatomy of the target nerve, plexus or space, indications for the procedure, technical approaches with pictures, potential complications, and strategies for preventing compli
Table of Contents
Section Editors xii
List of Contributors xiii
Foreword xx
Gabor B. Racz
Foreword xxii
Ricardo Ruiz – Lopez
Preface xxiv
Acknowledgments xxvi
Section 1: Basic Principles 1
1 The Importance of Studying Complications in Pain Medicine 3
Peter S. Staats and Serdar Erdine
2 History of Interventional Pain Procedures 8
Serdar Erdine and Peter S. Staats
3 Ethics of Interventional Pain Management 18
Serdar Erdine
4 Clinical Assessment of Patients to Decrease Risk 21
Vittorio Schweiger, Massimo Parolini, Alvise Martini, and Enrico Polati
5 Medical Legal Issues in Pain Management 27
Standiford Helm and Raymond McMahon
6 Complications of Opiate Therapy 32
Elie Sader, Steven Calvino, and Christopher Gharibo
7 Complications in the Pharmacologic Approach of Pain 38
Kris C.P. Vissers, Priodarshi Roychoudhury, and Lakshmi Koyyalagunta
8 Complications of Sedation in Painful Procedures 48
Ramsin Benyamin
9 Complications of Injectable Agents Used Intraoperatively 55
Karolina M. Szadek, Remko Liebregts, A. Long Liem, and Monique A.H. Steegers
10 Complications of Cryoneuroablation 63
Andrea Trescot
11 Complications of Radiofrequency Ablation Procedures 73
Anand Thakur C., Serdar Erdine, and Peter S. Staats
12 Infection Control 80
Liong Liem, Said Shofwan, Grady Janitra, and Sholahuddin Rhatomy
13 Radiation Safety for Interventional Pain Physicians 90
Vikram B. Patel
14 Bleeding Complications 97
Anthony H. Guarino and Neill Wright
Section 2: Complications of Cranial Procedures 101
15 Complications of Percutaneous Trigeminal Ganglion Procedures 103
Serdar Erdine
16 Complications of Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block 114
Benjamin Ashworth and Miles Day
17 Complications of Percutaneous Block and Lesioning of the Glossopharyngeal Nerve 121
Serdar Erdine
Section 3: Complications of Neck Procedures 127
18 Complications of Occipital Nerve Block and Radiofrequency Lesioning 129
Can Eyigor and Meltem Uyar
19 Complications of Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection 136
Ariana M. Nelson and Honorio T. Benzon
20 Complications of Cervical Facet Procedures 146
Jan van Zundert and Maarten van Eerd
21 Complications of Cervical Discography 152
Wenxi (Richard) Gao and Srdjan S. Nedeljković
22 Cervical Epidural Lysis of Adhesions 158
Gabor Bela Racz, Gabor J. Racz, Mohammad Javed Tariq, and Carl E. Noe
23 Complications of Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB) 167
Serdar Erdine and Peter S. Staats
Section 4: Complications of Thoracic Procedures 179
24 Complications of Thoracic Interlaminar Steroid Injection 181
Mert Akbaş and Gözde Dağıstan
25 Complications of Cervical and Thoracic Transforaminal Epidural Block 188
Arun Bhaskar and Athmaja Thottungal
26 Complications of Thoracic Facet Blocks and Ablations 199
Robert Chow, Melanie G. Wood, and Milan P. Stojanovic
27 Complications of Thoracic Discography 206
Fabricio Assis, Joao Henrique Araujo, and Francisco Morato Dias Abreu
28 Complications of Thoracic Sympathetic Block 214
Fabricio Assis, Carlos Marcelo de Barros, Tainá Melo Vieira Motta Pereira, and Thalita Marqueze
29 Complications of Intercostal Blocks and Ablations 223
Charles Amaral de Oliveira, Thais Khouri Vanetti, and Karen Santos Braghiroli
30 Complications of Thoracic Procedures 227
Elaine Gomes Martins, Thiago Nouer Frederico, and André Mansano
31 Complications of Splanchnic and Celiac Plexus Block 236
Serdar Erdine
Section 5: Complications of Lumbar Spine Procedures 247
32 Complications of Lumbar Interlaminar Steroid Injection 249
Mert Akbaş and Gözde Dağıstan
33 Complications of Lumbar Transforaminal Blocks 258
Jay Karri, Anuj Marathe, Rinoo Shah, and Scott Glaser
34 Complications of Lumbar Facet and Medial Branch Blocks and Ablations 267
Gözde Dağıstan and Mert Akbaş
35 Complications of Lumbar Sympathetic Block 274
E. Alp Yentür
36 Complications of Lumbar Provocation Discography 280
Ramsin Benyamin
37 Complications of Basivertebral Nerve Ablation 290
Ameer Ali, Melissa Lau, Michael DePalma, and Douglas Beall
38 Complications of Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty for Thoracic and Lumbar Procedures 298
Douglas P. Beall, Jordan E. Brasuell, Andrew W. Favre, Brooks M. Koenig, M. Ali Khan, Edward S. Yoon, Trevor R. Magee, Drake Stockard, Joseph D. Kinsinger, Saad A. Khan, William H. Eskew, and James R. Webb
Section 6: Complications of Pelvic and Sacral Procedures 329
39 Complications of Caudal Epidural Lysis of Adhesions 331
Gabor Bela Racz, Gabor J. Racz, Mohammad Tariq, and Carl E. Noe
40 Complications of Epiduroscopic Procedures 339
Altan Şahin
41 Superior Hypogastric Plexus Block 351
Ricardo Plancarte Sánchez and Marcela Sámano García
42 Complications of Ganglion Impar Block 360
Ricardo Plancarte Sánchez, Angel Manuel Juárez Lemus, Berenice Carolina Hernández Porras, and María del Rocío Guillén Nuñez
43 Complications of Sacroiliac Joint Block and Ablation 369
Aaron P. Bloom and Clarence Shannon
Section 7: Complications of Peripheral Blocks 377
44 Complications of Suprascapular Nerve Procedures 379
María Luz Padilla del Rey, Eleni Episkopou, and Agnes R. Stogicza
45 Complications of Genicular Nerve Blocks and Ablations 387
Kris Ferguson and Hemant Kalia
46 Complications of Lateral Obturator and Lateral Femoral Nerve Block and Radiofrequency Ablation for Hip Denervation 392
Leonardo Kapural and Taif Mukhdomi
47 Complications of Obturator Nerve Block 397
Kristof Racz, María Luz Padilla del Rey, and Agnes R. Stogicza
48 Complications of Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve Procedures 405
Alan Berkman, María Luz Padilla del Rey, and Agnes R. Stogicza
49 Complications of Pudendal Nerve Procedures 412
María Luz Padilla del Rey, Alan Berkman, and Agnes R. Stogicza
Section 8: Complications of Neuromodulation 421
50 Complications of Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems and Drugs Used 423
Alyson M. Engle, Mark N. Malinowski, Jonathan M. Hagedorn, and Timothy R. Deer
51 Complications of Spinal Cord Stimulation 439
İbrahim Aşik and Ümit Akkemik
52 Complications of Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Neuropathic Pain 449
Robert M. Levy
53 Complications of Peripheral and Field Stimulation 460
Priodarshi Roychoudhury and Peter Staats
54 Complications of Occipital and Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation 469
Konstantin V. Slavin
Section 9: Complications of Procedures on Regenerative Medicine and Advanced Interventions 477
55 Complications in Regenerative Medicine 479
Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, Yu Chuan Tsai, and Mattia Squarcia
56 Complications of Sacroplasty 493
Harold Cordner
57 Complications of Femoroplasty 501
Ricardo Plancarte, Berenice Carolina Hernández-Porras, Angel Juárez Lemus, and Erika C. Lopez Montes
58 Complications of Percutaneous Cordotomy 508
Ibrahim Yegül
59 Complications of Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression (MILD) 517
David W. Lee and Jason Pope
60 Complications of Interspinous Decompression 524
Sean li
61 Complications of Sacroiliac Joint Stabilization 529
Adam Rupp and Dawood Sayed
62 Complications of Intradiscal Therapeutic Procedures 537
Shrif Costandi and Nicholas Prayson
63 Complications of Trigger Point Injection 547
Yu Chuan Tsai and Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez
64 Complications of Percutaneous Spinal Lumbar Endoscopy (PELD) 555
Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, Ovidiu Palea, and Teodor Cristea
65 Complications of Percutaneous Lumbar Extraforaminotomy 564
Sang Chul Lee, Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, and Won-Joong Kim
Index 574
