Epidural blocks: standard of good clinical practice - Blocchi epidurali: standard di buona pratica

Abstract

The drafting of guidelines and good clinical practices in every medical field is becoming a priority for all scientific societies both for medical-legal reasons and for the need to spread a common quality standard. Pain therapy cannot be exempted from this even more so as it is still a "young" discipline without a "strong" core curriculum in Italy. With this document Federdolore-SICD wants to open a discussion with other scientific societies, to start a platform that can outline the best indications of one of the most used techniques in all surgeries, SPOKE and HUB of pain therapy: epidural blocks. This document is a summary of the work of the Federdolore-SICD National secretary on this topic and aims to help improve the clinical practice of every pain therapist.

Keywords

• Epidural blocks
• good clinical practice
• back pain
• radiculopathy