Problems With O'Connell et al, "Implanted Spinal Neuromodulation Interventions for Chronic Pain in Adults" (Cochrane Review)

Marc A Russo¹, Anuj Bhatia², Salim Hayek³, Tina Doshi⁴, Sam Eldabe⁵, Frank Huygen⁶, Robert M Levy⁷

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¹ Hunter Pain Specialists, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia; Genesis Research Services, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia; University of Newcastle, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia. Electronic address: algoguy@gmail.com.
² Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Division of Pain Medicine, University Hospitals, Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁵ Department of Pain Medicine, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.
⁶ Center of Pain Medicine Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Center of Pain Medicine University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁷ International Neuromodulation Society, Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, San Francisco, CA, USA.

PMID: 37029022
PMCID: PMC10330605
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2023.03.005

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Problems With O'Connell et al, "Implanted Spinal Neuromodulation Interventions for Chronic Pain in Adults" (Cochrane Review)

Marc A Russo et al. Neuromodulation. 2023 Jul.

. 2023 Jul;26(5):897-904.

doi: 10.1016/j.neurom.2023.03.005. Epub 2023 Apr 6.

Authors

Marc A Russo¹, Anuj Bhatia², Salim Hayek³, Tina Doshi⁴, Sam Eldabe⁵, Frank Huygen⁶, Robert M Levy⁷

Affiliations

¹ Hunter Pain Specialists, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia; Genesis Research Services, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia; University of Newcastle, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia. Electronic address: algoguy@gmail.com.
² Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Division of Pain Medicine, University Hospitals, Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁵ Department of Pain Medicine, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.
⁶ Center of Pain Medicine Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Center of Pain Medicine University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁷ International Neuromodulation Society, Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, San Francisco, CA, USA.

PMID: 37029022
PMCID: PMC10330605
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2023.03.005

No abstract available

Keywords: Chronic pain; dorsal root ganglion stimulation; neuromodulation; neurostimulation; spinal cord stimulation.

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Conflict of interest statement

Marc A. Russo reports research activities (paid to research institution) for Boston Scientific, Mainstay Medical, Medtronic, Nevro, Presidio Medical, and Saluda Medical, historical equity interest in Stimwave, Lungpacer, and SPR Therapeutics, and stock options in Saluda Medical and Presidio Medical. He is President of the International Neuromodulation Society and Director-at-Large of the Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Anuj Bhatia reports research activities (paid to his hospital) for Medtronic. He has served as a consultant to Bioventus. Salim Hayek reports no conflict of interest. Tina Doshi reports research support (paid to institution) from the National Institutes of Health and consulting fees from Guidepoint Global. Sam Eldabe reports no con-flict of interest. Frank Huygen reports independent investigator-initiated research grants (paid to hospital) from Abbott and Saluda Medical. He received honoraria for lectures at educational events sponsored by Abbott and Grunenthal. Robert M. Levy is an uncompensated consultant for Nalu, Saluda Medical, and Mainstay Medical and has stock options from Nalu and Saluda Medical obtained before 2019, not exercisable through the duration of his term as International Neuromodulation Society President and editor-in-chief of the journal Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface.

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Implanted spinal neuromodulation interventions for chronic pain in adults.
O'Connell NE, Ferraro MC, Gibson W, Rice AS, Vase L, Coyle D, Eccleston C. O'Connell NE, et al. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Dec 2;12(12):CD013756. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013756.pub2. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021. PMID: 34854473 Free PMC article.

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