Challenging Cases and Complication Management in Pain Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Anitescu, Magdalena (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Benzon, Honorio T. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wallace, Mark S. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Pain medicine.; Neurology .; General practice (Medicine).; Pain Medicine.; Neurology.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

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 shor...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction.-  Complications in Pain Medicine-overview
• Non-interventional pain therapy
• Opioid overdose
• Pain polypharmacy, drug-drug interaction
• Opioid withdrawal
• Pain and suicide
• Torsade de point after methadone treatment
• Acute delirium after ketamine infusion
• Cardiac dysrhythmia after lidocaine infusion
• Pool conjunctivitis after aquatherapy
• Fungemia after  intravascular self administration of crushed oral hydromorphone
• Interventional pain procedures
• Neuraxial procedures
• Sympathetic chain blocks and neurolysis
• Implantable drug delivery system
• Spinal cord stimulator.-  Kyphoplasty.-  Miscellaneous.-  Image library and clinical vignettes.