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Interventional Pain Management

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Invasive procedures performed by the pain management specialist are a mainstay in the diagnosis and treatment of both acute and chronic pain. They range from unguided percutaneous injections with short-acting local anesthetics to neurosurgical operations under computed tomography that permanently alter the anatomy. This chapter provides a description of the most common procedures performed by the pain management specialist, with more detail on the most frequent. The descriptions are not in sufficient enough detail to perform the procedures, and reference should be made to an interventional pain atlas for specifics.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Michael A. Cosgrove MD (Pain Management Fellow), David K. Towns MD (Pain Management Fellow) & Gilbert J. Fanciullo MS, MD (Professor of Anesthesiology)

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Alan D. Kaye MD, PhD (Professor and Chairman, Professor of Pharmacology, Director, Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Associate Professor)

  3. Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Alan D. Kaye MD, PhD (Professor and Chairman, Professor of Pharmacology, Director, Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Associate Professor)

  4. Interventional Pain Services, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Alan D. Kaye MD, PhD (Professor and Chairman, Professor of Pharmacology, Director, Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Associate Professor)

  5. Department of Anesthesiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Alan D. Kaye MD, PhD (Professor and Chairman, Professor of Pharmacology, Director, Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Associate Professor)

  6. Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Alan D. Kaye MD, PhD (Professor and Chairman, Professor of Pharmacology, Director, Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Associate Professor)

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  1. School of Medicine, Dept. Anesthesiology, Yale University, Cedar Street 333, New Haven, 06520-8051, Connecticut, USA

    Nalini Vadivelu

  2. Brigham & Women's Hospital, Dept. Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Francis St. 75, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

  3. School of Medicine, Dept. Anesthesiology, Yale University, Cedar Street 333, New Haven, 06520-8051, Connecticut, USA

    Roberta L. Hines

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Cosgrove, M.A., Towns, D.K., Fanciullo, G.J., Kaye, A.D. (2011). Interventional Pain Management. In: Vadivelu, N., Urman, R., Hines, R. (eds) Essentials of Pain Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87579-8_13

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