Atlas of Interventional Pain Management

Deliver safe, accurate, and cost-effective relief for patients with acute, chronic, and cancer pain with the fully revised, 6th Edition of Atlas of Interventional Pain Management. This essential resource by Dr. Steven D. Waldman is ideal for pain medicine clinicians at all levels of practice and training, providing comprehensive, easy-to-follow guidance that walks you step by step through each procedure. All clinically appropriate imaging modalities are represented, giving you the tools you need to achieve the best possible outcomes for more than 160 nerve block procedures, ranging from simple to advanced.

• Focuses on the how rather than the why of interventional pain procedures, offering an abundance of high-quality, full-color illustrations to demonstrate the best technique.
• Keeps you up to date with 23 brand-new chapters, including cervical retrolaminar block, pericapsular nerve group block at the shoulder, dorsal scapular nerve block, mid-point transverse process to pleura block, sacral plexus blocks, iPACK block, basivertebral nerve ablation, percutaneous interspinous spacers, and more.
• Incorporates all clinically useful imaging modalities that increase needle placement precision, including expanded content on office-based ultrasound guided techniques, fluoroscopy, and computed tomography guided procedures.
• Provides indications, clinically relevant anatomy, technique, side effects and complications, and clinical pearls for each procedure, as well as risks and benefits, potential pitfalls, and updated CPT codes.
• Clearly illustrates the anatomical targets for each procedure and the appropriate needle placement and trajectory used to reach each target-including where the needle should not go.
• Features more than 2,600 figures (430 new), including color line drawings, photographs, radiographs, ultrasound, CT, and MRI to provide you with a firm grasp of the anatomy involved with each procedure.
• Includes access to procedural videos covering cervical translaminar epidural block, cervical paravertebral medical branch block, percutaneous facet fusion, lumbar transforaminal epidural block, and more.
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.