(eBook) Challenging Cases and Complication Management by Anitescu

This is the PDF eBook version for Challenging Cases and Complication Management in Pain Medicine by Magdalena Anitescu, Honorio T. Benzon, Mark S. Wallace

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.