RT Book, Section
A1 Keel, John C.
A1 Serels, Anna
A1 Wu, Jason C.
A2 Bajwa, Zahid H.
A2 Wootton, R. Joshua
A2 Warfield, Carol A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1131937441
T1 Steroids
T2 Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071766838
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131937441
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  main  caveat  of  this  chapter  is  that  all  steroids  are  systemic.  Steroids,  that  is,  corticosteroids,  may  be  the  first  or  second  most  commonly  used  class  of  medication  in  pain  clinics,  as  well  as  orthopedic  and  other  musculoskeletal  clinics.  The  primary  aim  of  this  chapter  is  to  detail  the  potential  adverse  events  associated  with  corticosteroids  themselves  and  to  briefly  review  corticosteroid  pharmacology  and  technical  aspects.  Clinical  efficacy  evidence  is  not  reviewed  here  because  it  has  been  done  extensively  elsewhere;  instead,  a  review  of  steroid-specific  risks  is  presented  to  aid  decision  making  on  whether  a  steroid  should  even  be  used  in  the  first  place.  If  all  steroids  are  systemic,  then  any  adverse  event  related  to  steroids  could  potentially  result  from  steroids  administered  in  the  pain  clinic,  whether  or  not  such  has  been  reported  in  the  literature.  Let  not  steroids  be  understood  the  least  by  those  who  use  them  the  most.