FactFinders for patient safety: Delaying epidural steroid injections: Infection and safe platelet cutoff

Patricia Zheng; David Hao; George Christolias; Ben Marshall; Clark C Smith; Shaan Sudhakaran; Jaymin Patel; Zachary L McCormick; International Pain & Spine Intervention Society's Patient Safety Committee

doi:10.1016/j.inpm.2024.100383

FactFinders for patient safety: Delaying epidural steroid injections: Infection and safe platelet cutoff

Interv Pain Med. 2024 Jan 23;3(1):100383. doi: 10.1016/j.inpm.2024.100383. eCollection 2024 Mar.

Authors

Patricia Zheng¹, David Hao², George Christolias³, Ben Marshall⁴, Clark C Smith³, Shaan Sudhakaran⁵, Jaymin Patel⁶, Zachary L McCormick⁷; International Pain & Spine Intervention Society's Patient Safety Committee

Affiliations

¹ University of California San Francisco, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, San Francisco, CA, USA.
² Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Columbia University Medical Center, Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Denver, CO, USA.
⁵ National Spine and Pain Centers, Washington, DC, USA.
⁶ Emory University, Department of Orthopaedics, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁷ University of Utah, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Abstract

This series of FactFinders presents a brief summary of the evidence and outlines recommendations to improve our understanding and management of patients with potential contraindications to epidural steroid injections.