Reducing Risks and Complications of Interventional Pain Procedures : Volume 5: A Volume in the Interventional and Neuromodulatory Techniques for Pain

Reducing Risks and Complications of Interventional Pain Procedures - a volume in the new Interventional and
Neuromodulatory Techniques for Pain Management series - presents state-of-the-art guidance on avoiding pitfalls and
optimizing outcomes. Matthew Ranson, MD, Jason Pope, MD, and Timothy Deer, MD offer comprehensive, evidence-based
advice on selecting and performing these techniques - as well as weighing relative risks and complications. With access
to the fully searchable text at www.expertconsult.com , you'll have the detailed visual assistance you need right at
your fingertips.

Key Features
Understand the rationale and scientific evidence for choosing the most effective drugs and techniques.

Optimize outcomes, reduce complications, and minimize risks by adhering to current, evidence-based practice guidelines.


Apply the newest techniques and latest knowledge in neuromodulation.


Quickly find the information you need in a user-friendly format with strictly templated chapters supplemented with
illustrative line drawings, images, and treatment algorithms.

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Table of Contents
Section I: Neurostimulation

1 Complications of Spinal Cord Stimulation

2 Complications of Peripheral Nerve Stimulation: Open Technique, Percutaneous Technique, and Peripheral Nerve Field
Stimulation

3 Complications of Cranial Nerve Stimulation

4 Avoidance, Recognition, and Treatment of Complications in Cranial Neuromodulation for Pain


Section II: Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems


5 Complications of Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems


Section III: Discogenic Pain Procedures


6 Complications of Therapeutic Minimally Invasive Intradiscal Procedures

7 Complications related to radiofrequency procedures for the treatment of chronic pain

8 Complications of Lumbar Spine Fusion Surgery

9 Complications of nucleus replacement and motion-sparing technologies

10 Complications of Spinal Injections and Surgery for Disc Herniation


Section IV: Injections


11 Radiation Safety and Complications of fluoroscopy, ultrasonography, computed tomography

12 Complications Associated with Head and Neck Blocks, Upper Extremity Blocks, Lower Extremity Blocks and Differential
Diagnostic Blocks

13 Complications of Epidural Injections

14 Complications of Facet Joint Injections and Medial Branch Blocks

15 Complications of Radiofrequency Rhizotomy for Facet Syndrome

16 Complications of Sacroiliac Joint Injection and Lateral Branch Blocks including Water-Cooled Rhizotomy

17 Complications of Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation: Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty

18 Complications of Intra-articular Joint injections and Musculoskeletal Injections