Essentials of Pain Medicine and Regional Anesthesia Book

1	Anatomy and physiology of somatosensory and pain processing	1
2	Neurochemistry of somatosensory and pain processing	7
3	Taxonomy : definition of pain terms and chronic pain syndromes	15
4	Physical examination of the pain patient	18
5	Pain assessment	29
6	Psychological evaluation and testing	35
7	Neurophysiologic testing for pain	41
8	Anatomy, imaging, and common pain-generating degenerative pathologies of the spine	50
9	Determination of disability	80
10	Opioid receptors	87
11	Major opioids in pain management	94
12	Minor and short-acting opioids	106
13	Opioid therapy : adverse effects including addiction	113
14	Psychopharmacology for pain medicine	124
15	Membrane stabilizers	134
16	NSAIDs and COX-2-selective inhibitors	141
17	Muscle relaxants	159
18	Pharmacology for the interventional pain physician	166
19	Diagnostic nerve blocks	181
20	Neurosurgical procedures for treatment of intractable pain	190
21	Physical medicine and rehabilitation approaches to pain management	197
22	Acupuncture	203
23	Psychological interventions for chronic pain	209
24	Substance use disorders and detoxification	212
25	Pain management in the emergency department	222
26	Preemptive analgesia : physiology and clinical studies	229
27	Patient-controlled analgesia	235
28	Intrathecal opioid injections for postoperative pain	239
29	Epidural opioids for postoperative pain	246
30	Intraarticular and intraperitoneal opioids for postoperative pain	253
31	Pediatric postoperative pain	259
32	Pain management during pregnancy and lacation	264
33	Pain control in the critically ill patient	269
34	Classification of headache	277
35	Migraine headache and cluster headache	282
36	Tension-type headache, chronic tension-type headache, and other chronic headache types	289
37	Postdural puncture headache and spontaneous intracranial hypotension	293
38	Cervicogenic headache and orofacial pain	301
39	Overview of low back pain disorders	311
40	Interlaminar epidural steroid injections for lumbosacral radiculopathy	331
41	Selective nerve root blocks and transforaminal epidural steroid injections for back pain and sciatica	341
42	Facet syndrome : fact joint injections and facet nerve blocks	348
43	Pain originating from the buttock : sacroiliac joint dysfunction and piriformis syndrome	356
44	Myofascial pain syndrome	366
45	Fibromyalgia	371
46	Complex regional pain syndrome : terminology and pathophysiology	376
47	Complex regional pain syndrome : diagnosis and treatment	380
48	Herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia	386
49	Phantom pain	394
50	Central pain states	399
51	Pelvic pain	407
52	Sickle cell anemia	413
53	Diabetic and other peripheral neuropathies	418
54	Entrapment neuropathies	426
55	Chronic pain management in children	433
56	Geriatric pain	443
57	Spinal cord stimulation	454
58	Implanted drug delivery systems for control of chronic pain	465
59	Lumbar discography	474
60	Intradiscal techniques : intradiscal electrothermal therapy and nucleopasty	485
61	Osteoporosis and percutaneous vertebroplasty	494
62	Fluoroscopy and radiation safety	516
63	Approach to the management of cancer pain	525
64	Management of pain at end of life	535
65	Neurolytic visceral sympathetic blocks	542
66	Intrathecal and epidural neurolysis	550
67	Local anesthetics : clinical aspects	558
68	Spinal anesthesia	566
69	Epidural anesthesia	575
70	Combined spinal-epidural technique	582
71	Caudal anesthesia	587
72	Head and neck blocks	598
73	Brachial plexus blocks : techniques above the clavicle	607
74	Brachial plexus block : techniques below the clavicle	622
75	Truncal blocks : intercostal, paravertebral, interpleural, suprascapular, ilioinguinal, and iliohypogastric nerve blocks	636
76	Lumbar plexus, femoral, lateral femoral cutaneous, obturator, saphenous, and fascia iliaca blocks	645
77	Sciatic nerve block	659
78	Ankle block	672
79	Issues in peripheral nerve blocks : use of nerve stimulators, multiple- versus signle-injuection techniques, and use of adjuvants	677
80	Peripheral sympathetic blocks	687
81	Complications after peripheral nerve block	694
82	Complications after neuraxial blockade	702
83	Anticoagulants and neuraxial anesthesia	708