Challenging Cases and Complication Management in Pain Medicine

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Opioid Overdose  (Gregory Polston)....Pages 3-7
 Polypharmacy and Drug-Drug Interactions: Methadone  (Randall W. Knoebel, David M. Dickerson)....Pages 9-13
 Opioid Withdrawal  (Mark S. Wallace, Alexander Papp)....Pages 15-20
 Relationship of Chronic Pain and Suicide  (Sheetal Kerkar DeCaria, Vijal Patel)....Pages 21-26
 Torsades de Pointes After Methadone Treatment  (Andrea Shashoua)....Pages 27-30
 Acute Delirium After Ketamine Infusion for Chronic Pain  (Tariq Malik)....Pages 31-34
 Cardiac Dysrhythmia After Lidocaine Infusion  (Andrea Shashoua)....Pages 35-38
 Alternative Treatments for Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity: Therapeutic Hypothermia After Bupivacaine-Induced Cardiac Arrest  (Shaan Sudhakaran, Magdalena Anitescu)....Pages 39-43
 A Case of Serotonin Syndrome in a Patient Receiving Epidural Steroid Injection for Chronic Low Back Pain  (Brad Wisler, Honorio T. Benzon)....Pages 45-48
 The Difficult Pain Patient  (Mark S. Wallace, Ajay Wasan)....Pages 49-55
Front Matter ....Pages 57-57
 Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury After Cervical Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections  (Bradley Silva, Dalia Elmofty)....Pages 59-63
 Total Spinal After Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection  (Meghan E. Rodes)....Pages 65-70
 Death After Transforaminal Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection  (Irina Khrenova, Mario De Pinto)....Pages 71-79
 Spinal Infarct After Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection  (Khalid M. Malik)....Pages 81-83
 Motor Weakness After Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection  (John Kenny, Sheetal Kerkar DeCaria)....Pages 85-90
 Permanent Paralysis Caused by Epidural Hematoma After Tunneled Catheter Placement  (Alina Lazar, Johal Gurbir, Magdalena Anitescu)....Pages 91-98
 Sheared or Break of Caudal Catheters After Epidural Steroid Injection  (Tariq Malik)....Pages 99-102
 Epidural Abscess After Epidural Steroid Injection in a Patient on TNF-Alpha Inhibitors  (Geeta Nagpal)....Pages 103-108
Front Matter ....Pages 109-109
 Stroke: A Complication of Stellate Ganglion Block  (Ariana Nelson)....Pages 111-118
 Pneumothorax After Paravertebral Block and Radiofrequency  (Christina C. Moore, David M. Dickerson)....Pages 119-123
 Retroperitoneal Hematoma After Celiac Plexus Block  (Ryan Mattie, Ramana K. Naidu)....Pages 125-130
 Autonomic Insufficiency After Neurolytic Celiac Plexus Block  (Mark J. Burish, Ryan Mattie, Ramana K. Naidu)....Pages 131-138
 Aortic Dissection After Celiac Plexus Block  (R. Lee Wagner)....Pages 139-142
 Ureteral Injury After Lumbar Sympathetic Block  (Daniel Levin, Sophy Zheng, Magdalena Anitescu)....Pages 143-147
 Lower Extremity Weakness Following Neurolytic Superior Hypogastric Block  (Jeffrey Hopcian, Bradley Silva, Magdalena Anitescu)....Pages 149-153
 Discitis Following Transdiscal Approach for Superior Hypogastric Plexus Block  (Lucia Daiana Voiculescu, Qian CeCe Chen)....Pages 155-161
Front Matter ....Pages 163-163
 Complications Related to Catheter Migration  (Omar R. Qureshi, Magdalena Anitescu)....Pages 165-170
 Complications Related to Intrathecal Pump Catheter Infection  (Rena Beckerly)....Pages 171-180
 Intrathecal Pump Malfunction: Flipped, Expired, Stalled, and Malfunctioned Valves and Rotors Leading to Under- and Over-Infusion  (Kristen Noon, Lawrence R. Poree, Kenneth Ike, R. Carter W. Jones III)....Pages 181-187
 Seroma or Hygroma Formation After Implantation of an Intrathecal Drug Delivery System or a Spinal Cord Stimulator  (Dalia Elmofty)....Pages 189-192
 Complications of Intrathecal Polypharmacy, Medication Side Effects, and Overdose  (Rena Beckerly)....Pages 193-202
 Intrathecal Medication Withdrawal  (Kristen Noon, Mark Wallace, Timothy Furnish)....Pages 203-209
 Polypharmacy: Neuraxial Anesthesia and Anticoagulation  (Randall W. Knoebel, David M. Dickerson)....Pages 211-217
 Intrathecal Drug Delivery System Infections (Meningitis, Encephalitis, Pump Pocket Contaminants)  (Benjamin R. Beal)....Pages 219-223
 Intrathecal Ziconotide: Complications and Clinical Considerations  (Gemayel Lee, Jeffrey Chen)....Pages 225-231
Front Matter ....Pages 233-233
 Wound Dehiscence After Intrathecal Pump Implantation for Cancer Pain  (Kenneth Justin Naylor, David M. Dickerson)....Pages 235-239
 Generator and/or Lead Extrusion  (Joseph Rabi, Magdalena Anitescu)....Pages 241-244
 Spinal Cord Stimulator Complications: Lead Migration and Malfunction  (Mikiko Murakami, Imanuel Lerman, R. Carter W. Jones III)....Pages 245-250
 Epidural Infection  (David R. Walega)....Pages 251-256
Front Matter ....Pages 257-257
 Kyphoplasty in Fibrous Dysplasia  (Christina C. Moore, Matthew V. Satterly, Magdalena Anitescu)....Pages 259-268
 Epidural Cement Leak in Kyphoplasty  (Neil Malhotra, Nitin Malhotra, Magdalena Anitescu)....Pages 269-277
 Vascular Uptake of PMMA After Spinal Procedures  (Khalid Malik)....Pages 279-280
 Increased Pain After Kyphoplasty  (Tariq Malik)....Pages 281-285
Front Matter ....Pages 287-287
 Pneumothorax After Serratus Anterior Trigger Point Injection  (Paul M. Scholten)....Pages 289-293
 Complications of Occipital Nerve Block  (Dalia Elmofty)....Pages 295-298
 Septic Knee  (Paul M. Scholten)....Pages 299-303
 Bupivacaine-Induced Myonecrosis  (David Gordon, Magdalena Anitescu)....Pages 305-309
 Migration of a Supraclavicular Catheter for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome  (Tariq Malik)....Pages 311-316
 Buprenorphine Challenges in the Perioperative Period  (Katherine Kozarek, David M. Dickerson)....Pages 317-321
 Sensory and Motor Deficit with High Amplitude Stimulation in Spinal Cord Stimulators  (Shaan Sudhakaran, Magdalena Anitescu)....Pages 323-326
 Anterior Epidural Space Lead Placement  (Maunuk V. Rana, Simon Willis)....Pages 327-332
 Epidural Emphysema After Placement of a Thoracic Epidural Catheter  (Pavan Rao, Dalia Elmofty)....Pages 333-336
Back Matter ....Pages 337-346