Use of Local Anesthetics in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Therapy
Table 1.2 Local anesthetics with an amide bond A substituted amino group, the protonization of which determines the ratio of the cationic to the basic form. Only the free base…
Complications of Peripheral Nerve Blocks
Mechanical—acute Laceration Stretch Intraneural injection Vascular Acute ischemia Hemorrhage Pressure Extraneural Intraneural Compartment syndrome Chemical Injection of neurotoxic solutions Severity of Acute Nerve Injuries Classification of acute nerve injuries is…
Use of Nerve Stimulation and Stimulating Catheters in the Ultrasound Era
Fig. 4.1 Ulnar nerve stimulation. Electron flow is toward the needle with the needle as the cathode. This causes an area of depolarization around the needle tip and a subsequent…
Nerve Blocks, Trigger Points, and Intrathecal Therapy for Chronic Pain
Fig. 30.1 Gasserian ganglion block. Three-dimensional CT-view constructed after the needle (yellow) tip was advanced through the foramen ovale (Image reprinted with permission from Springer. The image was originally published…
The Art of Pain: The Patient’s Perspective of Chronic Pain
This picture titled Defeat depicts the moment of realization that I am forever changed. The figure is in the fetal position, a ball of fear, the tender moment of losing…
Acute to Chronic Pain: Transition in the Post-Surgical Patient
Type of operation Incidence of chronic post-surgical pain Number of operations performed in USA in 2006 (DeFrances et al. 2008) Coronary artery bypass graft 28% (Meyerson et al. 2001) to…
Dynamic Pain Assessment: An Application of Clinical Infometrics to Personalized Pain Treatment and Management
(1) Buehler Center on Aging, Health and Society, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA (2) Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School…
Quality Indicators for Pain in Palliative Care
and Hsien Seow2 (1) Johns Hopkins University, Rm 609, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, Norway (2) Juravinski Cancer Center, McMaster University, 699 Concession Street 4th Floor, Room 4-229, Hamilton, Ontario,…
Neurosurgical Interventions for the Control of Chronic Pain Conditions
Fig. 31.1 Anatomic location of cordotomy and other destructive spinal cord lesions for the treatment of chronic pain. Figure by Daniel Kramer, University of Pennsylvania Myelotomy Commissural myelotomy is an…
Pain Imaging
Fig. 27.1 Effects of pain and concurrent cognitive demand on SI activity. (a) Event-related average for primary somatosensory/motor cortex. Shaded gray area shows the duration of the condition. The SI/MI…
