Pain Management Interventional Radiology

As interventionalists become more involved with patients as care providers rather than solely as proceduralists, understanding and treating pain is a vital part of daily practice. This book provides an overview of the multiple techniques used in the management of pain in interventional radiology suites. Topics include techniques for the treatment and prevention of pain caused by interventional procedures, as well as minimally invasive techniques used to treat patients with chronic pain symptoms. Approximately half of the book is dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of spinal pain; other chapters focus on intraprocedural and post-procedural pain management, embolization and ablation techniques used to treat patients with uncontrollable pain, and alternative treatments for pain relief. This book is a practical resource for anyone looking to acquire skills in locoregional or systemic pain control and wishing to improve the quality of life for patients undergoing procedures or suffering from disease-related pain.

Contents

• 1 Pain management in interventional radiology: an introduction by Jason R. Bauer and Charles E. Ray, Jr.
• 2 Clinical evaluation of low back pain by Anthony Dwyer and Curt Freudenberger and Vikas Patel

Pt. I Locoregional Pain Control

• 3 Local anesthetics by Jan Namyslowski
• 4 Functional lumbar spine anatomy: a review by Anthony P. Dwyer and Curt Freudenberger and Vikas Patel and Michael Fleisher and Charles E. Ray, Jr.
• 5 Percutaneous vertebroplasty by Mitchell T. Smith and Charles E. Ray, Jr.
• 6 Kyphoplasty by Frances D. Faro and Anthony Dwyer and Vikas V. Patel
• 7 Epidural steroid injections by Brian Peterson
• 8 Selective nerve root blocks by Brian Peterson and Kirkland W. Davis and James Choi
• 9 Discography by Charles E. Ray, Jr. and Leo J. Rothbarth
• 10 Facet (zygapophyseal) joint injections by Nick Stence
• 11 Articular interventions in pain management: a general approach by Blaze Cook
• 12 Percutaneous management of visceral pain by Frank Morello
• 13 Embolization of painful neoplasms by Jennifer R. Huddleston and Stephen P. Johnson
• 14 Image-guided ablation of painful osteolyses by David T. Wang and Charles E. Ray, Jr.
• 15 Chronic pelvic pain in women by Derek L. West

Pt. II Systemic Pain Control

• 16 Sedation and analgesia medications by George Behrens and Hector Ferral and Nilesh H. Patel
• 17 Guidelines for sedation administered by non-anesthesiologists by Iftikhar Ahmad
• 18 Pediatric sedation for radiological imaging studies by Keira P. Mason