Interventional Pain Medicine in Miami

Friday 13 January - Lectures

Lectures will be given in English, but simultaneous Interpretation into Spanish and Portuguese will be available

07:00 Opening Remarks - Fabricio Assis
  12:00 Lunch
07:30 Radiation Safety - Juan Carlos Flores 13:00 Cervical Facet Pain: Diagnosis & Treatment - Jianguo Cheng
07:50 Spinal Anatomy for the Interventionalist  13:20 Cervicogenic Headache: Diagnosis & Treatment - Ira Fox
08:10 Ultrasound-Guided Spinal Procedures - Thiago Nouer 13:40 Thoracic Pain: Diagnosis & Treatment - Harvey Finkelstein
08:30 Epidural Injections: Which Steroid to Use? - Andre Mansano 14:00 Hip & Knee RF Denervation: Indications & Technique - Robert Odell
08:50 Pseudosciatica - Differential Diagnosis in Low Back Pain - Andrea Trescot 14:20 Protocols for the Management of Cancer Pain - Kris Vissers
09:10 Analgesic Pharmacology: Mechanisms, Limitations & Opportunities - Craig Hartrick
 14:40 Sympathetic Blocks - Ricardo Plancarte
09:30 Coffee Break 15:00 Coffee Break
10:00 SIJ Pain: Diagnosis & Treatment - Harold Cordner 15:30 Treatment Of Vertebral Compression Fractures - Deborah Tracy
10:20 Lumbar Facet Pain: Diagnosis & Treatment - Serdar Erdine 15:50 Cryoanalgesia in Interventional Pain: Indications & Technique - Andrea Trescot
10:40 Concepts and Diagnosis of Discogenic Pain - Fabricio Dias Assis
 16:10 Spinal Cord Stimulation: Old and New - Jose Rodrigues Hernandez
11:00 Treatment of Discogenic Pain - Ralph Justiz 16:30 Peripheral Nerve Stimulation: Indications & Technique - Ken Chapman
11:20 The Role of Regenerative Medicine Today - Miguel Figueroa 16:50 Selecting the Patient for Intrathecal Pumps: How to Do the Trial?
11:40 Epidural Neuroplasty: New Thoughts and Techniques - Gabor Racz 17:10 Managing Patients with Complex Facial Pain - Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez

19:00 - Welcome Cocktail Reception 

Cadaver Workshop Schedule
Saturday 
14 January
   Sunday 
   15 January
07:30-08:30 Caudal Neuroplasty    Cervical Epidural
08:30-09:30 Lumbar Sel Nerve Root    Cervical Facets
09:30-10:00 Coffee Break
10:00-11:00 SIJ Injection/RF   Vertebro-/Kyphoplasty
11:00-12:00 Lumbar Facets   Stellate Ganglion
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Lumbar Discogram   Sphenopalatine Ganglion
14:00-15:00 Hip/Knee RF   Trigeminal
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:30 T2-3 Symp & Splanchnic   Spinal Stim. Catheters
16:30-17:30 Lumb Symp &Sup Hypogastric   Pumps

Educational Objectives

After participating in this course, participants should be able to:
  1. Understand the implications of radiation safety
  2. Describe the clinical consequences of disc pathology, and understand the indications for percutaneous disc decompression and annuloplasty
  3. Recognize cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacroiliac pathology
  4. Discuss the indications and selection of epidural steroid techniques
  5. Categorize the uses of sympathetic blocks
  6. Identify causes of orofacial pain
  7. Synthesize the indications for intrathecal pumps and spinal cord stimulators
  8. Compare the indications for fluoroscopy and ultrasound
  9. Prepare for and avoid complications
Participants will also receive hands-on training in the following procedures:
  1. Caudal epidural
  2. Cervical and lumbar DRG
  3. SI joint injections
  4. Cervical and lumbar facets
  5. Adhesiolysis
  6. Discography
  7. Thoracic, splanchnic, superior hypogastric sympathetic injections
  8. Vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty
  9. Intrathecal pumps and spinal cord stimulators
  10. U/S-Guided procedures