TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Failed Back Surgery A1 - Schofferman, Jerome A2 - Bajwa, Zahid H. A2 - Wootton, R. Joshua A2 - Warfield, Carol A. PY - 2016 T2 - Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e AB - Failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) is a nonspecific term that has probably outlived its usefulness as we learned more about the problem, but the phrase remains embedded in the vernacular of the pain and spine worlds. One useful definition of FBSS is that the outcome of surgery did not meet the expectations of both the patient and the surgeon.1-4 This implies that the patient and surgeon had the same reasonable expectations for the outcome of surgery. It does not and should not mean the patient failed to get total pain relief or return to full function. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/04 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131933618 ER -