Cancer Pain Procedural Techniques

Multiple books on techniques of interventional pain management are available, however, applications to cancer pain management are lacking. The cancer pain specialists at Memorial Sloan Kettering have spent the last decade perfecting techniques in regional anesthesia, pain medicine, neuromodulation, and rehabilitation and applying what they have learned to alleviating pain in the oncologic population. Cancer Pain Procedural Techniques imparts to readers a clear understanding of the techniques currently available to manage cancer pain; focusing not only on indications specific to the cancer patient, but providing a guide to appropriately apply these techniques, and apply them safely, in the oncologic patient.

The text surveys important procedures necessary for a pain practitioner to treat an oncologic patient. Specific guidelines for indications and procedure descriptions along with anatomical and image-guided descriptions are included in each chapter. Chapters address both acute cancer related pain syndromes and treatment related pain syndromes. New interventional options such as percutaneous cordotomy and radiofrequency ablation of vertebral bodies are also detailed. This book functions as a practical aid and should appeal to established pain practitioners as well as pain practitioners in training.

• Covers both acute cancer related pain syndromes and treatment related pain syndromes
• Provides checklists and step by step guidance for ultrasound guided procedures
• Excellent, easy-to-read study resource for oral board examination
• Well illustrated to provide clearly defined and actionable guidance on performing techniques

CONTENTS

I. Introduction
1. Brief discussion on cancer pain syndromes
2. Critical evaluation for interventions in oncologic pain medicine
3. Physiology of cryo and radiofrequency ablation
4. Evaluating image guidance for interventions
5. Oncologic considerations
6. Drug allergy and chemoneurolytic agents
II. Muscle plane blocks
8. Chest wall planes
9. Abdominal planes
10. Other conceptual locations
11. Muscular targets TPI
III. Peripheral nerve blocks
12. Nerves of the scalp
13. Branches of the superficial cervical plexus
14. Branches of the trigeminal nerve
15. Branches innervating the shoulder girdle
16. Branches innervating the thorax
17. Branches innervating the upper extremities
18. Branches innervating the lower extremity
19. Pelvic targets
IV. Joint injections and denervation
20. Shoulder
21. Hip and trochanter
22. Sacroiliac joint
23. Facet joint
24. Knee
25. Other targets (scapula etc)
V. Sympathetic blocks
26. Stellate ganglion block
27. Thoracic sympathetic block
28. Celiac and thoracolumbar splanchnics
29. Lumbar splanchnics and sympathetic chain
30. Superior hypogastric plexus
31. Ganglion of impar
VI. Neuromodulation and neuroablation
32. Intrathecal drug delivery
33. Epidural procedures
34. Intrathecal neurolysis
35. Spinal Cord stimulation
36. Peripheral nerve stimulation and TENS
37. Percutaneous cordotomy
VII. Augumentation procedures
38. Kyphoplasty
39. Sacroplasty
40. Radiologic ablation