Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine: Resident Chronic Pain Articles & Lectures

Week 1	Lecture	Assigned Reading
Monday	Orientation (Fellows)	The epidemiology of chronic pain in the community Pain: an overview Management of chronic pain
Tuesday	Neurobiology of Pain	Molecular mechanisms of nociception
Wednesday	Physical Examination of the Pain Patient
Thursday	Grand Rounds
Friday	Diagnostic Neurophysiologic and Radiologic Tests
Week 2
Monday	Nerve Blocks I - Sympathetic Blocks - celiac ganglion impar lumbar sympathetic stellate ganglion superior hypogastric	Celiac Plexus/Splanchnic Nerve Blocks Superior Hypogastric nerve block for pelvic pain Stellate Ganglion Block Ganglion Impar Block: Critical Evaluation Lumbar Sympathetic Blockade
Tuesday	Nerve Blocks II - Cervical epidural Caudal epidural Lumbar epidural Thoracic epidural Intercostal nerve block SI joint injection Cervical facet block Thoracic facet block Lumbar facet block Occipital Nerve Blocks Cervical Plexus Blocks Piriformis Muscle Injection Nerve Root Blocks	Cervical Facet Radiofrequency Neurotomy Treatment of Lumbosacral Radiculopathy with Epidural Steroids Piriformis Syndrome: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes: A 10-Year Study
Wednesday	Pharmacology I-Opioids	Trends in the Pharmocolgy of Opioids: Implications for the Pharmacotherapy of Pain Accuracy in Equianalgesic Dosing: Conversion Dilemmas Chronic Opioid Therapy for non-cancer pain Pharmacology of opioid and nonopioid analgesics in chronic pain states
Thursday	Grand Rounds
Friday	Pharmacology II - TCA, Local anesthetics, Anticonvulsants, Muscle relaxanats, other adjuvants	Current Pharmacotherapy for Chronic Pain Pharmacologic Pain Treament of Musculoskeletal Disorders: Current Perspectives and Future Prospects
Week 3
Monday	Neuropathic Pain: including postherpetic neuralgia and postamputation pain	Neuropathic pain: aetiology, symptoms, mechanisms, and management The role of sympathetic nerve blocks in herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia Phantom Limb Pain Efficacy of Pharmacological treatments of neuropathic pain: an update and effect related to mechanism of drug action Mechanisms of Neuropathic Pain
Tuesday	Sympathetically-mediated Pain	Intravenous Sympathetic Blockade: The Phentolamine Infusion Test Complex Regional Pain Syndrome I
Wednesday	Nociceptive Pain: including myofascial and visceral pain	Pain - From Periphery to Brain Recent and forgotten aspects of visceral pain Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and myofascial pain syndrome
Thursday	Grand Rounds
Friday	Low Back Pain	Management of Back Pain
Week 4
Monday	Cancer Pain	Management of Cancer Pain
Tuesday	Intrathecal Pumps	Intrathecal Pumps
Wednesday	Spinal Cord Stimulators	Spinal cord stimulation
Thursday	Grand Rounds
Friday	Neurolytic agents and others (including bo-tox)	Critical Evaluation of Chemical Neurolysis of the Sympathetic Axis for Cancer Pain
Lectures are to be held in the Pain Clinic (JHOC 3) beginning at 7:15 AM daily (except for Thursdays). The faculty member assigned to the Clinic that day will be responsible for giving that lecture. Appropriate readings will be available either as handouts or on our website


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