American Society of Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine
Annual Fall Pain Meeting & Workshops
November 13-16, 2003
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, San Diego, CA
Numbers listed are abstract numbers
A1 - Endocannabinoid analgesia in normal and neuropathic rats
Lalot M1, Vandevoorde S2, Lambert D2, De Kock M1, Lavand’homme P1
1St Luc Hospital - UCL, 2UCL, Brussels, Belgium
A2 - Levetiracetam in the management of lumbar radiculopathy
Hamza M, Grubb C
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
A3 - The distribution characteristics of fluoroscopically guided epidural steroid injections: A comparison of transforaminal and interlaminar approaches and two different volumes
Buenaventura R, McSweeney T, Singstock B, Schulte G, Bourekas E, Severyn S, Benedetti C
The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
A4 - Morphine prolongs analgesic effects of ketamine in models of visceral nociception
Ness T, Uzzel T
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
A5 - Pulsed Radiofrequency Neurotomy (PRFN) registry: Efficacy and safety - short term data
Ahadian F, Braun J
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
A6 - Cross tolerance between spinal neostigmine and morphine in the rat
Yeatman A, Yeatman D, Karamian I, Dunbar S
Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, MA, USA
A7 - A phase II, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study of CJC-1008, A long-acting, parenteral, opioid analgesic, in the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia
Wallace M1, Moulin D2, Clark A3, Wasserman R4, Morley-Forster P5, Neale A6, Castaigne J7, Teichman S6
1University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA; 2London Health Sciences Center, London, Ontario, Canada; 3Qeii Health Sciences Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; 4University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; 5University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; 6WinPharm Associates, LLC, San Ramon, California, USA; 7ConjuChem, Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada
A8 - Function of a-delta and c fiber nociceptors in diabetic monkeys
Lu Y1, Laurito C1, Rice F2, Tigno X3, Hansen B3
1University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA; 2Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA; 3University of Maryland, Baltimore, MA, USA
A9 - Decreased tissue ph caused by gastrocnemius muscle incision in the rat
Woo Y, Park S, Brennan T
University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City, IA, USA
A10 - Spinal ketorolac combined with intrathecal analgesics to manage intractable cancer pain
Lalot M, le Polain B, Lavand’homme P
St Luc Hospital - UCL, Brussels, Belgium
A11 - Spread of the contrast during caudal injection in elderly patients with spinal stenosis
Vassilliev D1, Abdel Massieh N2
1Ohio Valley General Hospital, MaKees Rocks, PA, USA; 2The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
A12 - Management of chronic testicular pain with superior hypogastric plexus block
Hamza M, Wright T
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
A13 - A case-matching study of the analgesic properties of electroconvulsive therapy controlling for treatment of depression
Wasan A
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
A14 - Nucleoplasty in the treatment of lumbar herniated disk: A pilot study
Cohen S1, Larkin T2, Williams S2, Kurihara C2, Griffith S2
1New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; 2Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
A15 - Patient entrance skin radiation dose during three most common fluoroscopy-guided pain procedures
Vassiliev D, Blackwood M, Kincel D
The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
A16 - Intradiscal Thermal Annuloplasty (IDTA) for the treatment of discogenic pain in patients with multilevel degenerative disc disease
Kapural L, Mekhail N, Korunda Z, Elezovic N
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
A17 - Treatment of chronic low back pain with selective nerve stimulation
Heres E, Mnuskin D
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
A18 - Efficacy of lumbar sympathetic blockade in the management of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
Saxena S, Derbyshire S, Bernstein C, Rizk N, Cope D
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
A19 - Topical anesthetics for procedure related dermal pain
Eidelman A1, Carr D2
1St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center of Tufts, Brighton, MA, USA; 2New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
A20 - Inferior epigastric artery erosion: A rare complication of intrathecal drug delivery system
Narouze S1, Yonan S2, Malak O2
1Aultman Hospital, Canton, OH, USA; 2The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland,
OH, USA
A21 - Predictors of postoperative analgesic requirement after major lower extremity amputations
Subramaniam K, Park KW, Holt E
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
A22 - The effect of methadone on QTC intervals in a retrospective study of chronic pain patients
Yeatman D, Yeatman A, McKee A
Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, MA, USA
A23 - Saphenous nerve block: A novel therapy for acute gouty arthritis
Grubb C, Ting P
University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA
A24 - Thoracic epidural analgesia: Influences on time to first experience of pain
McLeod G
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland
A25 - Thoracic epidural analgesia: Influences on time to first experience of pain relief and pain following epidural rescue bolus
McLeod G
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland
A26 - Ketamine added to opioid analgesia: A quantitative and qualitative systematic review of controlled clinical trials
Subramaniam K, Subramaniam B, Steinbrook R
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
A27 - Body temperature changes with high and low concentrations of ropivacaine used for labor analgesia
Ramanathan S
Magee-Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
A28 - Observation of the therapeutic effect of pagosid on prostatodynia
Yu W, Zhao X, Wang H
The Traditional Medicine Hospital, LongKou, Shandong, China
A29 - The status of pain physicians in Ohio
Buenaventura R, McSweeney T, Cook III H, Severyn S, Benedetti C, Gravlee G
The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
A30 - Botulinum neurotoxin type a (bont-a) for relief of chronic low back pain
Dunteman E
A&A Pain Institute of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
A31 - The effect of the sciatic nerve ligature and evaluation of the functionality using the PIFIR model in wistar rats.
Tamayo A1, Guevara U1, López Muñoz F2
1Instituto Nacional De Ciencias Médicas Y Nutrición Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico; 2Centro De Investigación Y Estudios Avanzados, Mexico City, Mexico
A32 - Computed tomography guide for trigeminal alcohol neurolysis
Whizar-Lugo V1, Anzorena-Vallarino F1, Cisneros-Corral R1, Valdez-Jeres R2, Hernández-Velazco R1
1Centro Médico Del Noroeste, Tijuana, BC, Mexico; 2Imaxes, Tijuana, BC, Mexico
A33 - Transforaminal epidural steroid injection: A one-year follow-up
Rahimova G, Rahimov A
Samarkand Medical Institute, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
A34 - Alkalinization and precipitation characteristics of levobupivacaine
Munir M1, Ross E1, Bowen T2, Zhang J2
1Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;
2University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
A35 - Efficacy evaluation of the lumbar sympathetic block on treatment of complex regional pain syndrome-retrospective study of 46 cases
Marques C, Coelho V, Vieira V, Vilhena R
Coimbra University Hospitals, Coimbra, Portugal
A36 - Intrinsic spinal cord catheter placement: Implications of new intractable pain in spinal cord injured patients
Hurdle M, Huntoon M, Marsh R, Reeves R
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
