ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Quantitative Analysis of Real-Time Infrared Thermography for the Assessment of Lumbar Sympathetic Blocks: A Preliminary Study.
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- Comparative Analysis of Temperature Variations Following Sympathetic Blocks in Warm and Cold Subtypes of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the surface thermal response of peripheral nerve blocks in dogs undergoing trauma or orthopedic surgery.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Temperature difference between the affected and unaffected limbs in complex regional pain syndrome.Pain management · 2024Article
- The influence of perivascular tissue on lateral thermal expansion during bipolar vessel sealing.Surgery in practice and science · 2023Article
- Tibial Nerve Block as Treatment of Chronic Foot Pain.Anesthesiology and pain medicine · 2023Article
- The analgesic effect of lumbar sympathetic ganglion block in patients with failed back surgery syndrome.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Lumbar sympathetic blocks (LSBs) are commonly performed to treat pain ailments in the lower limbs. LSBs involve injecting local anesthetic around the nerves. The injection is guided by fluoroscopy which is sometimes considered to be insufficiently accurate. The main aim was to analyze the plantar foot skin temperature data acquired while performing LSBs in patients with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) affecting the lower limbs. Forty-four LSBs for treating lower limb CRPS in 13 patients were assessed. Pain medicine physicians visualized the infrared thermography (IRT) video in real time and classified the performance depending on the observed thermal changes within the first 4 min. Thirty-two percent of the cases did not register temperature variations after lidocaine was injected, requiring the needle to be relocated. Differences between moments are indicated using the 95% confidence intervals of the differences (CI 95%), the Cohen effect size (ES) and the significance (
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