Interventional pain: a step-by-step guide for the FIPP exam

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

Includes index.

Section I -- Head and Neck Procedures.-Interlaminar Cervical Epidural Injection -- Intraarticular Cervical Facet Joint Block, C2-T1, Posterior and Lateral Approach -- Cervical Medial Branch Branch Block and Radiofrequency Ablation, Postieror Approach -- Cervical Medial Branch Branch Block: Lateral Approach.-Cervical Medial Branch Branch Block and Radiofrequency Ablation: Oblique Approach -- Pterygopalatine Ganglion Block and RadioFrequency Abilation: Anterior and Cornoid Approach.-Stellate Ganglion Block.-Trigeminal Ganglion Block.-Section II -- Thoracic Procedures.-Intercostal Nerve Block.-Thoraric Splanchnic Block and Radiofrequency Abilation -- Thoraric Sympathetic Block and Radiofrequency Abilation -- Thoracic Facet joint Block.-Thoracic Medial Branch Block and Denervation.-Spinal Cord Stimulator.-Section III -- Lumbar Procedures.-Lumbar Intraarticular Facet Joint Injection.-Lumbar Rami Communicans Block.-Lumber Medial Branch Block and Lumber Median Branch Radiofrequency Abilation.-Lumbar Sympathetic Block and RF.-Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural.-Lumbar Discography.-Section IV -- Sacral Pelvic Procedures.-Caudal Neuroplasty.-Superior Hypogastric Plexus Block: Posterolateral app…