Intravertebral Embedded Infusion System

Recently, the pain department of Jiaxing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine has successfully performed the implantation of an intravertebral infusion system for a patient who has been tortured by intractable and severe pain for more than 2 years after going through many hospitals. After nearly 3 months of treatment, the patient’s pain was well controlled, the infusion system has been surgically removed, and a small amount of oral medication in the outpatient clinic, the patient returned to a normal life, sleep quietly at night, and successfully get rid of the pain. The development of this new technology has brought new hope to patients with intractable severe pain who have been ineffective in conservative treatments such as medication, physical and psychological treatments. Cai old man, from Tongxiang, sixty-five years old, children and grandchildren, should be enjoying the world, but two years ago, the left waist and back of the Department of pinprick-like, lightning-like intense pain, and appeared a series of red blisters, diagnosed as “herpes zoster” in the local hospital. The local hospital diagnosed as “herpes zoster”, that is, Jiaxing commonly known as “snake wrap”. After the corresponding treatment on the skin herpes healing, but then the pain is intolerable, taking analgesic drugs, still can not be controlled. 1 year ago in a foreign hospital line “CT-guided spinal nerve dorsal root ganglion radiofrequency thermo-coagulation”, postoperative symptomatic relief less than a year recurrence, the lumbar back as if the knife cuts the back of the salt-like pain, oral analgesic drugs of all kinds of ineffective, he He suffered from severe pain every day, which seriously affected his life and made it difficult for him to sleep and eat, and he lost a lot of weight. His family went around looking for a good solution to relieve his pain. Finally, they found the pain department of our hospital, hoping that there is a new method of combining Chinese and Western medicine. In view of his special condition, Dr. Zhu Bo, the chief physician of the pain department, together with other physicians in the department, carefully studied and repeatedly worked out a solution, and suggested that Mr. Cai receive the new technology of intralesional infusion system for intractable pain after the experimental treatment. Because the medication directly reaches the central nervous system after surgery, it can achieve satisfactory analgesic effect with a very small amount of analgesic medication, and after pain control, it can prompt the body to recover and break the vicious cycle of pain. After a detailed and patient explanation by Director Zhu, Mr. Cai and his family readily accepted the treatment plan. In June, he was hospitalized in our pain department and underwent a 2-hour surgery. Under local anesthesia, a German submerged infusion system was put into the spinal canal, and the analgesic drugs were continuously inputted in the postoperative period. At the same time, the pain department used a combination of Chinese and Western medicine to treat the affected areas, such as the back and waist, using traditional Chinese medicine and electro-acupuncture at transcutaneous acupoints, which resulted in a good control of pain, appetite and sleep. One week later, he was discharged from the hospital for weekly follow-up in the outpatient clinic. After nearly 3 months of treatment, the pain in the herpes area of the left lumbar and abdominal wall basically disappeared, he gained weight, and his face was flushed, so he was admitted to the hospital again, and the embedded infusion system was removed, and he was taking a small amount of analgesic medication orally, and the amount of treatment was gradually reduced to maintain the treatment. He and his family are very satisfied. According to the introduction of Chief Physician Zhu Bo, in our country, this surgery has been gradually carried out in recent years, mainly used for advanced intractable cancer pain. The so-called intrathecal infusion system is a catheter implanted under the skin with a diameter of about 1 millimeter, one end of which leads to the epidural cavity of the spinal cord, and the other end of which is connected to the drug delivery pump and buried under the skin, and the drugs are fed into the epidural cavity of the spinal cord through the drug delivery pump. Compared with the traditional analgesic methods, implantable epidural infusion system with a very small amount of drugs (only a few dozen to a few hundredths of the traditional method of drug delivery), but its analgesic effect is very strong, with very few side effects, the patient can walk freely after the treatment, and daily life, such as eating and living, will not be affected. The method is very traumatic, completed under local anesthesia, the patient can go home 1 week after the operation, and daily life can be completely self-care. Outpatient 7-10 days follow-up treatment. The Pain Department of Jiaxing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine combines the unique external application of traditional Chinese medicine and electro-acupuncture treatment for refractory postherpetic neuralgia, which rapidly achieves the goal of painlessness and comfort, and brings a new method for patients suffering from intractable pain.