Pain Medicine: Interventional Procedures — Advanced Expert Level Guide

Pain Medicine · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

An exhaustive and rigorous compendium of pathophysiology, advanced pharmacology, millimetric anatomical references and neuromodulation and ablation techniques in the interventional treatment of chronic and highly complex oncological pain.

What it covers

1. Interventional Procedures
2. Neuroanatomy of the Pain Pathways and Targets of Intervention
3. · Types of Primary Afferent Fibers
4. · Dorsal Horn Organization: Rexed Sheets
5. Advanced Interventional Pharmacology
6. · Local Anesthetics: Classification and Biophysics of Blockade
7. · Corticosteroids: Classification according to Solubility and Spinal Injection
8. Radiological Safety and Anticoagulation Management
9. · Radiation Physics and Radiological Protection Laws
10. · ASRA Pain Medicine peri-procedural guidelines
11. Epidural Corticosteroid Injections (ESI)
12. · Interlaminar Approach (ILESI)
13. · Transforaminal Approach (TFESI)
14. · Flow Approach (CESI)
15. Interventionism in Facet Joints and Medial Branch
16. · Neuroanatomy of Facet Innervation
17. · Diagnostic Medial Branch Blocks (MBB)
18. · Radiofrequency Denervation (Neurotomy)
19. Sympathetic Nervous System Blockages
20. Spinal and Peripheral Neuromodulation
21. · Posterior Cord Stimulation (SCS)
22. · Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation (DRG-S)
23. · Intrathecal Drug Infusion Systems (IDDS)
24. Interventionism in Sacroiliac Joint and Pelvic Pain
25. · Intra-articular injections in ASI
26. · Sacroiliac Denervation: Radiofrequency of Lateral Branches
27. · Chronic Pelvic Pain: Approach to the Pudendal Nerve
28. Radiofrequency of the Gasser Ganglion and Cranial Nerves
29. · Destruction and Neuromodulation Procedures in the Gasser Ganglion
30. · Greater Occipital Nerve Block (Arnold's Nerve)
31. Advanced Peripheral Joint Interventionism
32. Lumbar Discopathy and Intradiscal Procedures
33. · Lumbar Provocative Discography
34. · Dallas Classification of Fibrous Ring Rupture
35. · Intradiscal Treatments: Lumbar Ozone Therapy
36. Kyphoplasty, Vertebroplasty and Spinal Tumor Ablation
37. · Vertebroplasty vs. Balloon Kyphoplasty (BKP)
38. · Intravertebral Radiofrequency Tumor Ablation (t-RFA)
39. Percutaneous Epidural Adhesiolysis (Racz Procedure)
40. Serious Complication Management Protocols
41. · 1. Spinal Epidural Hematoma (SHE)
42. · 2. Accidental Dural Puncture Headache (PDPH)
43. · 3. Differential Diagnosis of Post-Procedural Meningitis