Interventional Pain Management

By Steven D. Waldman and Steven D. Waldman MD JD

Book Overview

The New Edition of this clinically focused text provides current, readable how-todescriptions of pain management techniques as well as the most up-to-date information on the anatomy and physiology of pain, patient evaluation and selection, pharmacology, and treatments. The 2nd Edition includes many new chapters, updated references, and numerous other revisions to reflect the latest advances in the specialty.Easiest text to use, with a step by step how to do itapproachNow features CPT codes and relative values for billing of all procedures
Sixteen new chapters including: laboratory testing, discography, non-opiate analgesics, percutaneous laser discectomy, and cyanomethacrealate resin injection, and much moreNew blocks featured include: trigemianal nerve, vagus nerve block, phrenic nerve block, spinal accessory nerve block, cervical fact block, brachial plexus block, and much more
Many new illustrations drawn for this editionOffers 18 new chapters on hot new topics such as IDET discography bracial plexus block lumbar facet block and neurolysis percutaneous vertebroplasty percutaneous las disectomy and much more.Features completely revised clinical chapters that reflect current clinical thinking on the use of interventional pain management therapy.
Presents an armamentarium of resources useful in fighting inappropriate claims denials, including current CPT-4 billing codes, a Society for Pain Practice Management relative value for each procedure, and a comprehensive list of scientific references supporting the use of interventional pain management techniques.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721687482
• ISBN13: 9780721687483
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 754 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Excelent BOOK

THE BOOK IS EXCELENTE, FIGURES ARE PERFECT, TEXT IS INTELLIGENT AND FOCUSED ON IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANEGEMENT.

Destined to Be the Gold-Standard Textbook in its Class

May31st, 2000Other manuals of Pain Mangement techniques exist, however Dr. Steve Waldman's command of anatomy, clinical disease, and far-reaching vision of the specialty of Interventional Pain Mangement has, for two-decades, been a source of inspiration and courage for younger clinical practitioners in the specialty. The current Hardcover volume is superbly illustrated, with clear instructions, and an encyclopedic-volume of possible pain management procedures to offer patients suffering from a wide variety of clinical sydromes. The author is to be, once again, congratulated for his efforts. I refer to this text regularly in my clinic, and recommend it whole-heartedly.

most comprehensive text to date on IPM

excellent coverage of numerous topics a great first attempt...would help if there were more diagrams detailing approaches from differant angles