Interventional Pain Therapies: Complications, Preventive Strategies, and Risk-Management

The role of interventional therapies in cancer pain management.

Cancer pain is complex and multifactorial. Most cancer pain can be effectively controlled using analgesics in accordance to the WHO analgesic ladder. However, in a small but significant percentage of cancer patients, systemic analgesics fail to provide adequate control of cancer pain. These cancer patients can also suffer from intolerable adverse effects of drug therapy or intractable cancer pa...

Complications in colorectal surgery: risk factors and preventive strategies

BACKGROUND Open or laparoscopic colorectal surgery comprises of many different types of procedures for various diseases. Depending upon the operation and modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors the intra- and postoperative morbidity and mortality rate vary. In general, surgical complications can be divided into intraoperative and postoperative complications and usually occur while the patien...

Interventional management of chronic pain.

Chronic non-cancer pain is a common clinical condition affecting a significant part of the population. This article aims to review the interventional options for non-cancer pain. Multiple searches using Medline were carried out and additional searches were made using reference lists of published papers and book chapters. The article discussed procedures ranging from selective nerve root or zyga...

Interventional and Nonpharmacological Therapies for Neuropathic Pain - Printer-friendly version

Interventional Management of Head and Face Pain.