Main description:

This comprehensive book serves as a review for the Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) exam and functions as a concise guide for all interventional pain doctors. Through educational initiatives, it helps to promote consensus-building among experts on the effectiveness of existing techniques and avenues for advancement of therapeutic performances.

The book is divided into four sections (head and neck, thoracic, lumbar and sacral/pelvic), and each chapter is devoted to the safe, standardized approach to interventional procedures. To prepare both the examiner and the examinee for the FIPP examination, each chapter contains the relevant C-arm images and outlines the most common reasons for "unacceptable procedures performance" and "potentially unsafe procedures performance." Distinguishing it from many of the previous guides, it also includes labeled fluoroscopic high quality images and focuses on the current FIPP-examined procedures with all accepted approaches.

Written and edited by world leaders in pain, Interventional Pain guides the reader in study for FIPP Exam and offers a consensus on how interventional procedures should be performed and examined.

Contents:

Head and neck1) Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocko Tunnel approacho Anterior approach2) Stellate Ganglion Blockanterior approachoblique approach3) Trigeminal Ganglion Block
4) Interlaminar Cervical Epidural Blockcontralateral oblique fluoroscopy viewlateral fluoroscopy view5) Cervical Facet BlockIntraarticular blockMedial Branch blockLateral approachposterior approachOblique approachThorax1) T2, 3 Sympathetic Block
2) Splanchnic Nerve Block
3) Thoracic Spinal Cord Lead Placement
4) Thoracic Facet BlockIntrarticularMedial Branch Block 5) Intercostal Nerve Block
Lumbar1) Lumbar Sympathetic Block
2) Lumbar Selective Nerve Root Block
3) Lumbar Discography Procedure
4) Lumbar Facet Block
IntrarticularMedial Branch Block5) Lumbar Communicating Ramus
Pelvic1) Hypogastric Plexus Blocko Oblique approacho Transdiscal approach* Anterior approach2) Caudal Neuroplasty3) Sacral Nerve Root Block4) Sacroiliac Joint Injection5) RF-Sacroiliac JointSimplicityPalisade techniqueCooled RF technique