Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures for Pain

Dawood Sayed, MD, is a professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is an internationally renowned expert in the field of interventional pain medicine. He is the Vice Chairman and Co-Founder of The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN). Alaa Abd-Elsayed, MD, MPH, is a professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. In addition to his work as a pain specialist, he is also an active clinical investigator with research interests in the use of opioids fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome (CPRS), and headaches. Steven Falowski, MD, is the director of Functional Neurosurgery at Argires-Marotti Neurosurgical Associates of Lancaster. His specialty resides in brain and spine surgery and his experience ranges from spinal cord stimulation and pain management, complex spinal procedures, and treatment for movement disorders. Timothy Deer, MD, is the founder of the Spine and Nerve Center of the Virginias. He also holds the position of clinical professor of anesthesiology at West Virginia University and is the Chairman and Founder of The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN).

Preface
List of Contributors

Part 1 Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery for the Interventional Pain Physician
1. The Interventionalist's Perspective, Dawood Sayed
2. A Surgeon's Perspective, Steven M. Falowski
3. Surgical Instruments Salman Sagarwala, Brian Y. Kim, David H. Kim
4. Perioperative Considerations, Brian Y. Kim
5. Spinal Diagnostics for Interventional Pain and Surgery, Jeffrey D. Petersohn

Part 2 Decompressive Procedures
6. Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression, Sameer Jain and Navdeep Singh Jassal
7. Endoscopic Discectomy, Jeffrey D. Petersohn, Mayank Gupta, and Umar M. Syed
8. Uniportal, Percutaneous Microdiscectomy with Annulo-nucleoplasty, Erica R. Eldon and Corey W. Hunter

Part 3 Spinal Implants
9. Indirect Lumbar Decompression, Jessica Jameson, Sean Li, Steven Bhutra, Lynn Kohan, and Arti Ori
10. Minimally Invasive Posterior Lumbar Fusion-A New Approach to a Standard Procedure, Behnam Myers and Alaa Abd-Elsayed

Part 4 Vertebral Augmentation Procedures
11. Vertebroplasty, Johnathan Goree and Mark Malinowski
12. Vertebral Augmentation, Vinicius Tieppo Francio, Hermant Kalia, and Alexander Escobar
13. Vertebral Augmentation with Osteotome, Christopher M. Lam and Nomen Azeem
14. Spinal Tumor Ablation, Andrew Sack and Harry Sukumaran
15. Basivertebral Nerve Ablation, Anthony Giuffrida and Benjamin D. Westerhaus

Part 5 Sacroiliac Joint Therapies
16. Sacroiliac Joint Fusion-Posterior Approach, Patrick Buchanan and Jack Diep
17. Sacroiliac Fixation-Lateral Approach, Steven M. Falowski

Part 6 Neuromodulation Procedures
18. Percutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulator, Trial Bethany Potere, Nasir Hussain, Timothy Deer, and Alaa Abd-Elsayed
19. Percutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulator Implantation (Cervical/Lumbar), Vinicius Tieppo Francio, Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Timothy Deer, and Benjamin D. Westerhaus
20. Peripheral Nerve Stimulator Implantation, Steven Zhou, Nasir Hussain, Timothy Deer, and Alaa Abd-Elsayed
21. Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation, Alyson M. Engle, Jonathan M. Hagedorn, and Timothy Ray Deer
22. Intrathecal Drug Delivery, Jacqueline Weisbein and Priyanka Ghosh

Index