Journal ArticleNEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery · March 20, 2024
The Duke Integrated Pain and Wellness (IPW) program integrates early identification and stratification of patients at risk for poor pain outcomes, leveraging a validated two-question screening tool across select Duke Health primary and multispecialty clini ...
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Journal ArticlePain and Therapy · January 1, 2024
Introduction: This study evaluates the financial impact on healthcare payers when chronic pain patients initiate peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) with a 60-day percutaneous PNS (60-Day PNS) treatment versus a conventional brief PNS trial (PNS-BT) with po ...
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Journal ArticleInterventional Pain Medicine · December 1, 2023
Objective: To report a case of intrathecal pump failure following months of diminishing benefit from intrathecal baclofen, and to heighten awareness that intrathecal pump malfunction can occur without precipitating events. Case report: A 40 year-old woman ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Open Qual · April 2023
UNLABELLED: Local anaesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) is a rare complication after outpatient interventional pain procedures, which can present as an emergent and life-threatening condition. Proficiency and confidence in managing this rare situation neces ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pain Res · 2023
Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) has become an essential component in the pain management plan for individuals suffering from peripheral nerve-mediated pain. The recent surge in interest in PNS can be attributed to the advancements in imaging techniques ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Pain Headache Rep · August 2022
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Chronic pain in the USA has presented with higher prevalence rates among women, older adults, those unemployed, living in poverty, living in rural environments, and adults with public health insurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has heavily p ...
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Journal ArticlePain Physician · August 2022
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a novel challenge for healthcare delivery and implementation in the United States (US) in 2020 and beyond. Telemedicine arose as a significant and effective medium for safe and efficacious physician-patient int ...
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Journal ArticlePhys Med Rehabil Clin N Am · May 2022
For patients with chronic pain or cancer-related pain, the most common indication for sympathetic block is to control visceral pain arising from malignancies or other alterations of the abdominal and pelvic viscera. When it is recalcitrant to conservative ...
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Journal ArticleBest Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol · September 2020
Chronic pain is typically defined as pain that persists after acute tissue damage and inflammation or as pain that follows a chronic disease process and lasts more than three months. Because of its debilitating impact on the quality of life of patients, re ...
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Journal ArticleReg Anesth Pain Med · June 2020
BACKGROUND: The past two decades have witnessed a surge in the use of lumbar facet blocks and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) to treat low back pain (LBP), yet nearly all aspects of the procedures remain controversial. METHODS: After approval by the Board of ...
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Journal ArticleClin Transl Gastroenterol · February 2020
INTRODUCTION: Chronic abdominal pain (CAP) can arise from multiple conditions, including inflammatory disorders, trauma because of injury or surgery, or structural or functional causes. This prospective, single-arm study was designed to evaluate the safety ...
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Journal ArticleAnesthesiology · May 2015
BACKGROUND: Epidural corticosteroid injections are a common treatment for radicular pain caused by intervertebral disc herniations, spinal stenosis, and other disorders. Although rare, catastrophic neurologic injuries, including stroke and spinal cord inju ...
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Journal ArticleA A Case Rep · February 15, 2015
We present this case to review the metabolism of oxycodone and the effects of end-stage renal disease on the elimination of oxycodone and its metabolites. A 42-year-old female with end-stage renal disease who was dependent on hemodialysis presented for lef ...
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Journal ArticleAnesth Analg · August 2014
This retrospective case series of patients with refractory sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pain presents our first 77 SIJ radiofrequency ablation (RFA) procedures performed with a multilesion probe. Of these, 16 (20.8%) provided no relief; 55 (71.4%) provided >50% ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Pain Headache Rep · January 2013
Interventional pain procedures are critical in the diagnosis and management of a variety of facial pain conditions. Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is the most frequent diagnosis for facial pain, with a reported prevalence 10 times greater than persistent idiopa ...
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Journal ArticleReg Anesth Pain Med · 2012
Postoperative pain control in patients undergoing spine surgery remains a challenge for the anesthesiologist. In addition to incisional pain, these patients experience pain arising from deeper tissues such as bones, ligaments, muscles, intervertebral disks ...
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Journal ArticleTechniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management · January 1, 2011
Pain is one of the most troubling symptoms for many of the over 10 million cancer patients in America. For many patients, traditional medications and treatments are not effective and they are severely debilitated by their pain, causing needless suffering a ...
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Journal ArticleNeuromodulation · October 1, 2010
Introduction: Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is used for treatment of pain arising from a variety of pathologies. Reported sideeffects related to SCS are most commonly technical complications including malfunction, lead migration, or severance. Up to date, ...
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