Advanced Procedures for Pain Management - by Sudhir Diwan & Timothy R Deer (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Step-by step instructions for advanced pain medicine techniques with over 600 high-resolution imagesExtensive diagrams and explanatory figure legends in each chapterCovers advanced techniques for those that know the fundamentals, including a variety of procedures and equipment

From the Back Cover

Edited by Sudhir Diwan, a former Director of Pain Medicine fellowship program at Ivy League Weill Cornell Medical College, and Timothy R. Deer, an internationally renowned expert in neuromodulation and minimally invasive spinal procedures, this atlas covers advanced procedures that normal residency and fellowship programs may not cover. It consolidates information pain fellows usually amass by traveling throughout the country to various specialized weekend courses. Advanced Procedures for Interventional Pain Management: A Step-by-Step Atlas is for physicians that know the fundamentals of pain medicine and want to push their knowledge further. Through easy-to-digest bullet points, extensive diagrams, hundreds of figures, and expanded legends beneath each illustration, this compendium covers techniques such as fluoroscopic guidance and radiation safety, endoscopic transforaminal discectomy, endoscopic direct-percutaneous discectomy, transforaminal myelogram, percutaneous facet fusion, percutaneous sacroplasty, vertebral augmentations, percutaneous tumor ablation, percutaneous spinal fusion, minimally invasive spinal decompression (MILD), Interspinous Spacer Placement and advanced neuroaugmentation techniques like high frequency stimulation and DRG stimulation. This book also has a dedicated section on Regenerative Medicine with chapters on platelet rich plasma, stem cell therapy, and intradiscal regenerative therapy. Each chapter has a strict chapter format that includes the indications and contraindications for each procedure, a list of equipment and drugs, a step-by-step illustration-focused how-to, a list of possible post-procedural complications, and bullet-pointed clinical pearls and pitfalls. Within each chapter the authors will also cover the variations of each procedure due to different equipment. This book is ideal for pain medicine fellows, spine surgeons, and interventional pain physicians who want access to the best minds and specialized procedures in a single package.

Review Quotes

"Advanced Procedures for Pain Management: A Step-by-Step Atlas, edited by Sudhir Diwan and Timothy R. Deer, covers the broad swath of currently available, and experimental, interventional treatments for pain. ... It is aimed at Pain Medicine Fellows and practicing Pain Medicine physicians." (Ellen L. Air, Operative Neurosurgery, Vol. 17 (1), July, 2019)
"This atlas provides an opportunity to be familiarized with techniques rarely described in classical textbooks or courses. Diwan and Deer are 2 well-known experts in the world of advanced pain management. ... The strengths of the book are the step-by-step approach and concrete objectives, described by clear figures and several fluoroscopic views." (Patrice Forget, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 127 (05), November, 2018)
"This is an excellent collection of advanced pain procedure techniques, normallynot covered by pain textbooks, described in a step-by-step fashion. The breadth and variety of procedures the book covers are unique and exhaustive. Plenty of images and illustrations help deliver the message in a clear and concise manner. ... The book targets current and future pain physicians." (Tariq M. Malik, Doody's Book Reviews, October, 2018)

About the Author

Sudhir Diwan, MD, FIPP, DABIPPExecutive Director, Manhattan Spine and Pain MedicinePain Attending, Lenox Hill HospitalNew York, NY, USA
Timothy R. Deer, MDPresident and CEOThe Center for Pain ReliefCharleston, WV, USA