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Intrathecal Drug Delivery for Pain and Spasticity

Volume 2: A Volume in the Interventional and Neuromodulatory Techniques for Pain Management Series

  • 1st Edition - September 29, 2011
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Asokumar Buvanendran, Sudhir Diwan, Timothy R. Deer
  • Language: English

Intrathecal Drug Delivery for Pain and Spasticity - a volume in the new Interventional and Neuromodulatory Techniques for Pain Management series - presents state-of-the-art gu… Read more

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Intrathecal Drug Delivery for Pain and Spasticity - a volume in the new Interventional and Neuromodulatory Techniques for Pain Management series - presents state-of-the-art guidance on the full range of intrathecal drug delivery techniques performed today. Asokumar Buvanendran, MD and Sudhir Diwan, MD, offer expert advice on a variety of procedures to treat chronic non-malignant pain, cancer pain, and spasticity. Comprehensive, evidence-based coverage on selecting and performing these techniques - as well as weighing relative risks and complications - helps you ensure optimum outcomes. With access to the fully searchable text at www.expertconsult.com, you’ll have the detailed visual assistance you need right at your fingertips.

Key features

  • Understand the rationale and scientific evidence behind intrathecal drug delivery techniques and master their execution
  • Optimize outcomes, reduce complications, and minimize risks by adhering to current, evidence-based practice guidelines
  • Apply the newest techniques in intrathecal pump placement, cancer pain management, use of baclofen pumps, and compounding drugs
  • Quickly find the information you need in a user-friendly format with strictly templated chapters supplemented with illustrative line drawings, images, and treatment algorithms
  • Access the fully searchable contents online at expertconsult.com

Readership

Anesthesiology, Pain

Table of contents

SECTION I: General Considerations

1. Basic Science of Spinal Receptors

2. Pharmacologic Agents and Compounding of Intrathecal Drugs

3. Polyanalgesia for Implantable Drug Delivery Systems

4. Principles of Patient Management for Intrathecal Analgesia

5. Patient Selection for Intrathecal Infusion to Treat Chronic Pain

6. Patient Preparation

7. Psychological Considerations in IDD

8. Intrathecal Drug Delivery: Medical Necessity, Documentation, Coding and Billing

SECTION II: Implant Devices

9. Methods of Trials for Consideration of ITDDS

10. Techniques of Implant Placement for Intrathecal Pumps

11. Programmable versus Fixed-Rate Pumps for Intrathecal Drug Delivery

12. SynchroMed EL vs SynchroMed II

13. Minimizing the Risks of Intrathecal Therapy

14. Complications Associated with Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems

SECTION III: Evidence-based practice

15. Management of ITDDS in Patients with Co-Morbidities

16. Cost-Effectiveness of Implanted Drug Delivery Systems

17. Neuroaugmentation by Stimulation vs. Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems

18. Anticoagulation guidelines and Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems

19. Intrathecal Therapy for Malignant Pain

SECTION IV: ITDDs for spasticity

20. Intrathecal Baclofen Trialing

21. Baclofen Pump Management

SECTION V: Future of ITDDs

22. Future of Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems (including new devices)

23. Trialing for Ziconotide Intrathecal Analgesic Therapy

24. Perioperative Management of Patients with ITDDS

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 29, 2011
  • Language: English

About the authors

AB

Asokumar Buvanendran

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology Rush University Medical Center Chicago, IL

SD

Sudhir Diwan

Dr. Diwan is a world renown luminary in Minimally Invasive Spine Methods. A former fellowship director, at Cornell University, Dr. Diwan now leads the Latin American Pain Society and the New York New Jersey Pain Symposium, one of the premier meetings in the space. In addition, he has authored hundreds of articles, chapters and books.

Dr. Deer and Dr. Diwan frequently teach these methods of Minimally Invasive Spine surgery around the world and have an extensive network of physicians who are renowned in all areas of the book.

Affiliations and expertise
President, Advanced Spine on Park Avenue, New York Associate Clinical Professor, Albert Einstein Medical School, Bronx, New York, USA

TD

Timothy R. Deer

Timothy R. Deer is a clinical professor of anesthesiology at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, where he also received his medical degree. He completed his training in anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Virginia. Dr. Deer has published on a range of topics, including injection techniques, minimally invasive disc procedures, intrathecal drug delivery, and spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulation. He lectures at many national and international symposiums and has been involved in the hands-on training of more than a thousand interventional pain specialists. He serves on the board of directors of the North American Neuromodulation Society and American Academy of Pain Medicine. He is a past chair of the committee on pain medicine of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, a member of the editorial board of the journal Neuromodulation, president of the West Virginia Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, and serves on several other boards and committees.
Affiliations and expertise
President, The Spine and Nerve Center of the Virginias; Clinical Professor, West Virginia University School of Medicine Charleston, West Virginia, USA

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