| Literature DB >> 22151039 |
Timothy Deer1, Elliot S Krames, Samuel Hassenbusch, Allen Burton, David Caraway, Stuart Dupen, James Eisenach, Michael Erdek, Eric Grigsby, Phillip Kim, Robert Levy, Gladstone McDowell, Nagy Mekhail, Sunil Panchal, Joshua Prager, Richard Rauck, Michael Saulino, Todd Sitzman, Peter Staats, Michael Stanton-Hicks, Lisa Stearns, K Dean Willis, William Witt, Kenneth Follett, Mark Huntoon, Leong Liem, James Rathmell, Mark Wallace, Eric Buchser, Michael Cousins, Ann Ver Donck.
Abstract
Background. Expert panel of physicians and nonphysicians, all expert in intrathecal (IT) therapies, convened in the years 2000 and 2003 to make recommendations for the rational use of IT analgesics based on the preclinical and clinical literature known up to those times, presentations of the expert panel, discussions on current practice and standards, and the result of surveys of physicians using IT agents. An expert panel of physicians and convened in 2007 to review previous recommendations and to form recommendations for the rational use of IT agents as they pertain to new scientific and clinical information regarding the etiology, prevention and treatment for IT granuloma. Method. A review of preclinical and clinical literature from 2000 to 2006 was undertaken and disseminated to an expert panel of physicians. Focused discussions concerning the rational use of IT agents and its relationship to the etiology of, prevention of, and treatment of IT granuloma were held. Results. This report presents here new knowledge of the etiology of catheter tip granuloma and guidelines for its prevention and treatment.Entities:
Year: 2008 PMID： 22151039 DOI： 10.1111/j.1525-1403.2008.00147.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neuromodulation ISSN： 1094-7159