Description
Thoroughly revised and reorganized, this 2nd edition offers you meticulous how-to-do-it guidance on performing today’s top radiographically guided regional anesthesia and pain management techniques. Renowned experts explain how to make optimal use of fluoroscopy, MRI, and CT to pinpoint the exact anatomic site for each procedure…and a DVD of video clips shows you how to perform it most effectively.
Reviews
“This is a very valuable addition to the few well-written books relating to interventional pain management. It is an excellent resource for the trainee as well as for practicing interventional pain physicians.”—Anesthesia & Analgesia, review of the previous edition.
Key Features
- Provides fluoroscopic, MR, and CT images coupled with distinct line drawings for each procedure to ensure proper positioning and easy application of techniques.
- Offers easy-to-follow step-by-step descriptions addressing every aspect of patient positioning, the use of radiographic solutions for tissue-specific enhancement, and correct techniques for anesthesia/analgesia administration so you can be sure your patient will be pain free throughout the procedure.
- Discusses possible complications to help you avoid mistakes.
- Includes descriptions of procedures for each image guided technique as well as the approaches available for such imaging so you can choose the correct procedure for every patient.
New to this Edition
- Features two new sections Advanced Techniques and Emerging Techniques, incorporates new procedures into the upper and lower extremity and head and neck chapters, and revises all other chapters substantially to put you on the cusp of the latest advances in the field.
- Includes a DVD of video clips demonstrating proper patient positioning and difficult procedures showing you exactly how to proceed.
- Uses nearly 1,600 crisp illustrations, 50% new to this edition, to illuminate every concept.
- Presents a complete reorganization by body region and focused content to help you get to the information you need quickly.
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Author Information
By P. Prithvi Raj, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Co-Director of Pain Services, Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine, International Pain Institute, Lubbock, TX; Leland Lou, MD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine, International Pain Institute, Lubbock, TX; Serdar Erdine, MD, Professor, Department of Algology, Medical Faculty of Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey; Peter S. Staats, MD, Professor, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Steven D. Waldman, MD, JD, Director, Pain Consortium of Greater Kansas City, Leawood, KS; Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO; Gabor Racz, MD, Grover E. Murray Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Co-Director of Pain Services, Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine, International Pain Institute, Lubbock, TX; Michael Hammer, MD, Medical Director, The Hammer Center for Pain Management, Birmingham, AL; David Niv, MD, Director, Multidisciplinary Center for Pain Medicine and Pain Rsearch Laboratory, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, Director, Traramiento del Dolor, Clinica del Dolor de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; and James E. Heavner, DVM, PhD, Profesor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Physiology, Director, Anesthesia Research, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX
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