Wound Healing
Patient factor Adverse impact on healing Age Extremes of aged and youth Weight Extremes of obesity and cachexia Nutrition Negative protein balance Blood supply Ischemia and edema Immune function Immunosuppression…
Preoperative Evaluation for Spinal Cord Stimulation
Fig. 4.1 Sagittal T2-weighted MRI of an epidural abscess (arrows, arrowheads) from an SCS trial Systemic infections should be treated and under good control prior to moving forward. If any…
Perioperative Precautions for Infection Control
Preoperative Identification of patient risk factors Optimizing immune and nutritional status Optimizing medical comorbidities such as diabetes, immunosuppression, and dental disease Preoperative screening and decolonization for Staphylococcus aureus carriers Appropriate…
Patient Selection
High probability Chronic radicular pain Neuropathic pain Peripheral neuropathy Ischemic pain Refractory angina pectoris (not amenable to surgery) Sympathetically mediated pain Peripheral vascular disease Failed Back Surgery Syndrome with radicular…
Disease Indications
High probability Chronic radicular pain Neuropathic pain Peripheral neuropathy Visceral pain Ischemic pain Sympathetically driven pain Peripheral vascular disease Multiple sclerosis Refractory angina pectoris (not amenable to surgery) Painful ischemic…
History of Neurostimulation
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016Timothy R. Deer and Jason E. Pope (eds.)Atlas of Implantable Therapies for Pain Management10.1007/978-1-4939-2110-2_1 1. History of Neurostimulation Timothy R. Deer1 and Jimmy Mali2 (1) The Center for Pain Relief, 400 Court…
Wide QRS Complex Tachycardia in the Emergency Setting
Fig. 6.1 Diagrams (a, b) show two wide QRS complex tachycardias. In both diagrams, small positive deflections, independent of QRS complexes, are present. In diagram (a) these deflections are rhythmic…
Atrial Flutter and Fibrillation in the Emergency Setting
Fig. 5.1 Atrial fibrillation with moderately fast ventricular response (about 100 bpm). RR intervals are irregular and coarse F waves are visible European (ESC 2010) [4] and US (AHA/ACC/HRS 2014)…
Supraventricular Arrhythmias in Emergency
Fig. 4.1 ECG in normal sinus rhythm; with usual setting (paper speed 25 mm/s) 1 mm equals with 40 ms interval Each QRS complex is preceded by a P wave…
Pacemaker Malfunction: Myth or Reality?
Fig. 11.1 Top panel (a). DDD pacemaker. Atrial rhythm is paced at 60 bpm. Spontaneous QRS with right bundle branch morphology occurs after 180 ms that inhibits ventricular pacing. This…
