Nerve ablations - the sky is the limit

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Location:Phoenix Convention Center, 221C

CE: 1.5 Credits

Coordinator(s)

David Prologo, MD

Associate Professor
Emory University

Disclosure(s): Focused Cryo: Board Membership (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing)
Neil Resnick, MD

Interim Division Director of Interventional Radiology
Emory University

Disclosure(s): No relevant disclosure to display

Moderator(s)

J. Dana Dunleavy, MD (he/him/his)

Director
Windsong Interventional

Disclosure information not submitted.

Disclosure(s):

David Prologo, MD: Focused Cryo: Board Membership (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing)

Neil J. Resnick, MD: No relevant disclosure to display

Nerve ablations under advanced imaging guidance are evolving beyond pain. The purpose of this session is to describe the existing pain applications and illustrate how practice is expanding into other clinical realms based on the ability of interventional radiologists to target and ablate nervous tissue.

Learning Objectives:

Review the expanding indications for nerve ablation.
Review the foundational procedures in IR involving nerve ablation.
Describe case-based applications of nerve ablation, including selection and outcomes.

Presentations:

1:00 PM – 1:16 PM

The bread and butter stuff: medial branch, lateral sacral, and pulsed RFA applications
Speaker: Alexis Kelekis, MD (he/him/his) – University Of Athens
1:16 PM – 1:32 PM

Cold hearted: autonomic cryoneurolysis for the management of intractable cardiac arrhythmias
Speaker: Neil J. Resnick, MD – Emory University
1:32 PM – 2:04 PM

The case for percutaneously induced neuroregeneration
Speaker: David Prologo, MD – Emory University
2:04 PM – 2:20 PM

Percutaneous epidural lysis of adhesions
Speaker: Amit Gupta, MD, FSIR – Stony Brook University Hospital
2:20 PM – 2:30 PM

Q & A