Factfinders for patient safety: Epidural steroid injection in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis

George Christolias; Aditya Raghunandan; Byron J Schneider; Kunj Amin; David Hao; Jaymin Patel; International Pain and Spine Intervention Society's Patient Safety Committee

doi:10.1016/j.inpm.2024.100444

Factfinders for patient safety: Epidural steroid injection in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis

Interv Pain Med. 2024 Oct 22;3(4):100444. doi: 10.1016/j.inpm.2024.100444. eCollection 2024 Dec.

Authors

George Christolias¹, Aditya Raghunandan², Byron J Schneider^{3

4}, Kunj Amin⁵, David Hao⁶, Jaymin Patel⁷; International Pain and Spine Intervention Society's Patient Safety Committee

Affiliations

¹ Columbia University Medical Center, Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
² UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
³ Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dept of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁴ Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Center for Musculoskeletal Research, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁵ Ascension Texas Spine and Scoliosis, Austin, TX, USA.
⁶ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Emory University, Department of Orthopaedics, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Abstract

This FactFinder presents a brief summary of the evidence suggesting that epidural steroid injections can be safely performed even in the setting of severe, multilevel lumbar spinal stenosis.