IPM Procedures With or Without Fluoroscopy: Outcome Comparison

Pain Management Center of Paducah

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Neck Pain; Low Back Pain

Treatments: Procedure: Fluoroscopy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00371618

protocol 13

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine clinically significant improvement in the patients undergoing procedures under fluoroscopy.

To evaluate and compare the adverse event profile in both groups

Full description

For the target delivery of injectate, it is believed that fluoroscopy is mandatory. However, there is a view among some professionals that a procedure may be performed without fluoroscopy as effectively as under fluoroscopy. The outcomes among the two groups of patients have not been studied

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients who have undergone the following procedures:

Cervical facet joint nerve blocks, thoracic facet joint nerve blocks, lumbar facet joint nerve blocks, lumbar interlaminar epidural steroid injections, cervical Interlaminar epidural steroid injections

During 1998 to 2001 and 2004 to 2005

Exclusion Criteria: Non-availability of appropriate data