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Challenging Cases and Complication Management in Pain Medicine

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Editors:
  1. Magdalena Anitescu

    1. Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, USA

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  2. Honorio T. Benzon

    1. Department of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA

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  3. Mark S. Wallace

    1. Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, USA

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  • Comprehensive collection of complications that arise in pain management treatment plans
  • Covers interventional and non-interventional treatments
  • Each case include images and diagnostic elements
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (52 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Non-interventional Pain Therapy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Opioid Overdose

      • Gregory Polston
      Pages 3-7

    3. Polypharmacy and Drug-Drug Interactions: Methadone

      • Randall W. Knoebel, David M. Dickerson
      Pages 9-13

    4. Opioid Withdrawal

      • Mark S. Wallace, Alexander Papp
      Pages 15-20

    5. Relationship of Chronic Pain and Suicide

      • Sheetal Kerkar DeCaria, Vijal Patel
      Pages 21-26

    6. Torsades de Pointes After Methadone Treatment

      • Andrea Shashoua
      Pages 27-30

    7. Acute Delirium After Ketamine Infusion for Chronic Pain

      • Tariq Malik
      Pages 31-34

    8. Cardiac Dysrhythmia After Lidocaine Infusion

      • Andrea Shashoua
      Pages 35-38

    9. Alternative Treatments for Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity: Therapeutic Hypothermia After Bupivacaine-Induced Cardiac Arrest

      • Shaan Sudhakaran, Magdalena Anitescu
      Pages 39-43

    10. A Case of Serotonin Syndrome in a Patient Receiving Epidural Steroid Injection for Chronic Low Back Pain

      • Brad Wisler, Honorio T. Benzon
      Pages 45-48

    11. The Difficult Pain Patient

      • Mark S. Wallace, Ajay Wasan
      Pages 49-55

  3. Interventional Pain Procedures: Neuraxial Procedures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury After Cervical Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections

      • Bradley Silva, Dalia Elmofty
      Pages 59-63

    3. Total Spinal After Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection

      • Meghan E. Rodes
      Pages 65-70

    4. Death After Transforaminal Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection

      • Irina Khrenova, Mario De Pinto
      Pages 71-79

    5. Spinal Infarct After Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection

      • Khalid M. Malik
      Pages 81-83

    6. Motor Weakness After Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection

      • John Kenny, Sheetal Kerkar DeCaria
      Pages 85-90

    7. Permanent Paralysis Caused by Epidural Hematoma After Tunneled Catheter Placement

      • Alina Lazar, Johal Gurbir, Magdalena Anitescu
      Pages 91-98

    8. Sheared or Break of Caudal Catheters After Epidural Steroid Injection

      • Tariq Malik
      Pages 99-102
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About this book

This comprehensive book provides reviews of pain management complications that arise in clinical practice.  Organized into sections focused on types of pain therapy and procedures, each chapter is based on actual complications; starting with a case description that delineates the context with a short past medical and surgical history, pain management technique and outcome it is followed by a comprehensive review of the topic described in the first section.  Authors emphasize the elements of differential diagnosis that pointed towards establishing of the complication and describe the best way to treat the identified complication.  Physicians treating pain patients will be presented the necessary tools in identifying and treating unanticipated complications following pain interventions, thus providing safer care for their patients.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, USA

    Magdalena Anitescu

  • Department of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA

    Honorio T. Benzon

  • Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, USA

    Mark S. Wallace

About the editors

Magdalena Anitescu
University of Chicago Medicine
Dept. of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Chicago, Illinois
USA

Honorio T. Benzon
Northwestern University Feinberg Feinberg School of Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology
Chicago, Illinois
USA

Mark S. Wallace
Univ. of California San Diego School of Medicine
Division of Pain Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology
La Jolla, California
USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Challenging Cases and Complication Management in Pain Medicine

  • Editors: Magdalena Anitescu, Honorio T. Benzon, Mark S. Wallace

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60072-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60070-3Published: 29 November 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60072-7Published: 17 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 346

  • Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Pain Medicine, Neurology, General Practice / Family Medicine

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