PURPOSE To enhance the learner's competence with knowledge of interventional procedures as an adjunct therapy in the treatment of shingles pain. TARGET AUDIENCE This continuing education activity is intended for physicians and nurses with an interest in skin and wound care. OBJECTIVES After participating in this educational activity, the participant should be better able to:1. Demonstrate k...

OBJECTIVE To describe types of interventional medical procedures its rationale use and benefits for a population with cancer assisted at a private hospital in São Paulo. METHODS Quantitative and descriptive cross-sectional study using data from patients submitted to interventional procedures between 2007 and 2008. We used descriptive and inferential statistics (frequency, mean, and t-test) to...

Cancer pain is prevalent and often multifactorial. For a segment of the cancer pain population, pain control remains inadequate despite full compliance with the WHO analgesic guidelines including use of co-analgesics. The failure to obtain acceptable pain or symptom relief prompted the inclusion of a fourth step to the WHO analgesic ladder, which includes advanced interventional approaches. Int...

conclusion lower back pain is a major healthcare issue and this review article will help educate the pain practitioners about the current evidence based treatment options. results this review article describes the most common modalities available to an interventional pain physician along with the most relevant current and past references for the treatment of lower back pain. all the graphics an...

BACKGROUND Pain interventionists can interrupt pain through anesthetic blockade of neural transmission to virtually any part of the body. Temporary pain relief can be achieved by the direct application of targeted anesthetic. Diagnostically, nerve blocks help identify specific pain generators, refine differential diagnosis, and disrupt the neural transmission mechanisms to stop pain generation ...

Over the last decade, anesthesia procedures for low back pain have evolved significantly. Whereas blind epidural steroid injections were formerly the mainstay of procedural treatments, today, interventional pain physicians provide a variety of “minimally invasive,” targeted, and technically sophisticated treatment options for patients suffering with low back pain. As a mark of the increased imp...