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Stage 3 Neuroanaesthesia / Advanced Neurocritical Care

Pain Conditions and Functional Neurosurgery

Published on 17 March, 2022

Last modified on March 25th, 2022

Curriculum Reference

4.13.3 (E) – Recognises the need for and complications of interventional pain procedures.

15.9.2 Deliver safe perioperative care to adults requiring elective intracranial surgery both supratentorial and infratentorial including craniotomies for vascular lesions, pituitary surgery.

Review Articles

Spinal cord stimulators and implications for anaesthesia – BJA Education

Treatments for neuropathic pain: up-to-date evidence and recommendations – BJA Education

Trigeminal neuralgia BJA Education

Trigeminal neuralgia: a practical guide – Practical Neurology

Anaesthesia for epilepsy surgery – BJA Education

Spinal cord stimulation – BJA Education

National Guidance/Standards

Royal college of Physicians – Complex regional pain syndrome in adults (2nd edition)

RCoA Audit Compendium

10.9 medial branch block and radiofrequency denervation for lumbar facet joint pain

NACCS Video

10/5/2018 11.15 Neuromodulation in Pain Management

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