The appropriate use of neurostimulation: Avoidance and treatment of complications of neurostimulation therapies for the treatment of chronic pain

Neuromodulation

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 571-598

  Deer, Timothy R ^a   Mekhail, Nagy ^b   Provenzano, David ^c   Pope, Jason ^a   Krames, Elliot ^d   Thomson, Simon ^e   Raso, Lou ^f   Burton, Allen ^g   Deandres, Jose ^h   Buchser, Eric ⁱ   Buvanendran, Asokumar ^j   Liem, Liong ^k   Kumar, Krishna ^l   Rizvi, Syed ^l   Feler, Claudio ^m,n   Abejon, David ^o   Anderson, Jack ^p   Eldabe, Sam ^q   Kim, Philip ^r,s   Leong, Michael ^t   Hayek, Salim ^u   McDowell, Gladstone ^v   Poree, Lawrence ^w,x   Brooks, Elizabeth S ^x   McJunkin, Tory ^y   Lynch, Paul ^y   Kapural, Leo ^z   Foreman, Robert D ^aa   Caraway, David ^ab   Alo, Ken ^ac,ad   Narouze, Samer ^ae   Levy, Robert M ^af   North, Richard ^ag,ah   more..

^a Center for Pain Relief   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Ohio Valley General Hospital   (United States)

^d Pacific Pain Treatment Centers   (United States)

^e BASILDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f Jupiter Interventional Pain Management Inc   (United States)

^g Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care and Pain Management General University Hospital Valencia University Medical School ^*

^h HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

ⁱ LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^j RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^k ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ Valley View Hospital   (United States)

^o Hospital Universitario Quiron   (Spain)

^p Arizona Pain Specialists   (United States)

^q JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^r CHRISTIANA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^s BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL   (United States)

^t STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v Integrated Pain Solutions   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^x Pain Clinic of Monterey Bay   (United States)

^y Johnson Research Bldg 3 361   (United States)

^z WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ab Tri State LLC   (United States)

^ac HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ad SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^ae Summa Western Reserve Hospital   (United States)

^af UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ag JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ah Neuromodulation Foundation   (United States)

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Author keywords

Chronic pain; complications; guidance; neurostimulation; peripheral nerve stimulation; risk reduction; spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ACCREDITATION; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BATTERY DEPLETION; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEAD DISCONNECTION; LEAD FRACTURE; LEAD MIGRATION; LIQUORRHEA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MICTURITION DISORDER; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATOR; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EDUCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; SEROMA; SKIN EROSION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD STIMULATOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYSTEM MALFUNCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALGESIA; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DEVICE SAFETY; DEVICES; EDUCATION; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEMATOMA; NEUROSURGERY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WOUND INFECTION;

CHRONIC PAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84905971036     PISSN: 10947159     EISSN: 15251403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ner.12206     Document Type: Article

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