Evidence-based knee injections for the management of arthritis

OT Cheng, D Souzdalnitski, B Vrooman… - Pain medicine, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Objective. Arthritis of the knee affects 46 million Americans. We aimed to determine the level
of evidence of intraarticular knee injections in the management of arthritic knee pain. …

Obesity and chronic pain: systematic review of prevalence and implications for pain practice

S Narouze, D Souzdalnitski - Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, 2015 - rapm.bmj.com
The combination of obesity and pain may worsen a patient’s functional status and quality of
life more than each condition in isolation. We systematically searched PubMed/MEDLINE …

Regional anesthesia and co-existing chronic pain

D Souzdalnitski, TM Halaszynski… - Current Opinion in …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
The systemic condition of chronic pain has important practical and clinical implications for
regional anesthesia implementation by anesthesiologists and pain management physicians. …

Novel high-frequency peripheral nerve stimulator treatment of refractory postherpetic neuralgia: a brief technical note

IR Lerman, JL Chen, D Hiller, D Souzdalnitski… - … : Technology at the …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objectives The study aims to describe an ultrasound (US)-guided peripheral nerve stimulation
implant technique and describe the effect of high-frequency peripheral nerve stimulation …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence-based approaches toward reducing cancellations on the day of surgery

D Souzdalnitski, S Narouze - Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Cancellations on the day of surgery are widely recognized as a healthcare dilemma with
potential negative impact on the provision of healthcare, including hospitals, patients and …

How to improve needle visibility

D Souzdalnitski, I Lerman, TM Halaszynski - Atlas of ultrasound-guided …, 2011 - Springer
There are many advantages to the use of ultrasound in interventional pain medicine procedures.
Ultrasound technology is currently growing exponentially due to its many advantages of …

Occipital nerve entrapment within the semispinalis capitis muscle diagnosed with ultrasound

S Narouze, D Souzdalnitski - Cephalalgia, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
A 33-year-old man presented with a nine-month history of severe, refractory unilateral
occipital neuralgia. The diagnosis was made based on the International Classification for …

Obesity and chronic pain: opportunities for better patient care

S Narouze, D Souzdalnitski - Pain management, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Growing evidence suggests that the relationship between obesity and chronic pain is not
random. Understanding this relationship can contribute to effectively managing both conditions. …

A low-cost, durable, combined ultrasound and fluoroscopic phantom for cervical transforaminal injections

IR Lerman, D Souzdalnitski, S Narouze - Regional Anesthesia & …, 2012 - rapm.bmj.com
Background This technical report describes a durable, low-cost, anatomically accurate, and
easy-to-prepare combined ultrasound (US) and fluoroscopic phantom of the cervical spine. …

Patients with a history of spine surgery or spinal injury may have a higher chance of intrathecal catheter granuloma formation

SN Narouze, J Casanova, D Souzdalnitski - Pain Practice, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Goals Intrathecal drug delivery is an effective method to treat intractable pain.
However, intrathecal catheter tip granuloma ( ICTG ) is a devastating complication of …