Interventional Pain. A Step-by-Step Guide for the FIPP Exam

Head and neck
1) Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocko Tunnel approacho Anterior approach
2) Stellate Ganglion Block anterior approachoblique approach
3) Trigeminal Ganglion Block
4) Interlaminar Cervical Epidural Blockcontralateral oblique fluoroscopy viewlateral fluoroscopy view
5) Cervical Facet Block Intraarticular block Medial Branch block Lateral approach posterior approach Oblique approach

Thorax
1) T2, 3 Sympathetic Block
2) Splanchnic Nerve Block
3) Thoracic Spinal Cord Lead Placement
4) Thoracic Facet Block Intrarticular Medial Branch Block
5) Intercostal Nerve Block

Lumbar
1) Lumbar Sympathetic Block
2) Lumbar Selective Nerve Root Block
3) Lumbar Discography Procedure
4) Lumbar Facet Block Intrarticular Medial Branch Block
5) Lumbar Communicating Ramus

Pelvic
1) Hypogastric Plexus Blocko Oblique approacho Transdiscal approach* Anterior approach
2) Caudal Neuroplasty
3) Sacral Nerve Root Block
4) Sacroiliac Joint Injection
5) RF-Sacroiliac Joint Simplicity Palisade technique Cooled RF technique

This comprehensive book serves as a review for the Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) exam and functions as a concise guide for all interventional pain doctors. Through educational initiatives, it helps to promote consensus-building among experts on the effectiveness of existing techniques and avenues for advancement of therapeutic performances.

The book is divided into four sections (head and neck, thoracic, lumbar and sacral/pelvic), and each chapter is devoted to the safe, standardized approach to interventional procedures. To prepare both the examiner and the examinee for the FIPP examination, each chapter contains the relevant C-arm images and outlines the most common reasons for "unacceptable procedures performance" and "potentially unsafe procedures performance." Distinguishing it from many of the previous guides, it also includes labeled fluoroscopic high quality images and focuses on the current FIPP-examined procedures with all accepted approaches.

Written and edited by world leaders in pain, Interventional Pain guides the reader in study for FIPP Exam and offers a consensus on how interventional procedures should be performed and examined.

Agnes R. Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS
University of British Columbia, St Paul's Hospital
Vancouver BC, Canada

Andre Mansano, MD, PhD, FIPP, CIPS
Singular - Pain Management Center
Campinas, Brazil

Andrea M. Trescot, MD, FIPP, CIPS
Pain and Headache Center
Eagle River, AK

Peter S. Staats MD MBA
Chief Medical Officer National Spine and Pain Centers
President Elect World Institute of Pain
USA