Interventional Pain Management: Image-Guided Procedures with DVD Review

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(More customer reviews)This review pertains to the 2nd edition 2008 release of this title.

Per the back cover of the book:
"See exactly how to proceed via a DVD of video clips, demonstrating proper patient positioning and difficult procedures..."

This is one of the major reasons I purchased this book, and likely one of the major reasons other people are considering this book.

However, the DVD only covers THREE different procedures! They are:
1. Hypogastric Plexus Block
2. Lumbar sympathetic block
3. Splanchnic nerve block

This is all that is on the DVD!!! Out of the dozens if not hundreds of procedures in this textbook, why only videos of these three? They are by no means the most difficult pain procedures to master, nor are they very commonly employed in *most* pain practices, with the exception of the lumbar sympathetic block for CRPS/RSD.

Furthermore, these video clips were not made for this book, they are recycled videos from the University of Texas Pain Department that were filmed long ago, and sold under by the World Institute of Pain on its website on a DVD called "Instructional DVD Video #1 for interventional pain treatment techniques." So, I already had the exact same videos which I had purchased from the WIP previously! What a disappointment!

Secondly, these videos have a commercial agenda in employing only the Epimed curved blunt tip needles, which are an invention of Dr. Racz and manufactured by Epimed, whose President is Dr. Racz' son!

Other than
1. Only three techniques covered
2. Commercial bias

I think the video is quite good. But one would think there should be dozens of techniques on this DVD not just three!

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