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K. Dean Willis
Researcher at University of Alabama
Publications - 14
Citations - 1424
K. Dean Willis is an academic researcher from University of Alabama. The author has contributed to research in topics: Critical appraisal & Evidence-based medicine. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 14 publications receiving 1364 citations.
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Polyanalgesic Consensus Conference 2012: recommendations for the management of pain by intrathecal (intraspinal) drug delivery: report of an interdisciplinary expert panel.
Timothy R. Deer,Joshua P. Prager,Robert M. Levy,James P. Rathmell,Eric Buchser,Allen W. Burton,David Caraway,Michael J. Cousins,Jose De Andres,Sudhir Diwan,Michael A. Erdek,Eric Grigsby,Marc A. Huntoon,Marilyn S. Jacobs,Philip Kim,Krishna Kumar,Michael S. Leong,Liong Liem,Gladstone C. McDowell,Sunil Panchal,Richard Rauck,Michael Saulino,B. Todd Sitzman,Peter S. Staats,Michael Stanton-Hicks,Lisa Stearns,Mark S. Wallace,K. Dean Willis,William W. Witt,Tony L. Yaksh,Nagy Mekhail +30 more
TL;DR: The use of intrathecal infusion of analgesic medications to treat patients with chronic refractory pain has increased since its inception in the 1980s, and the need for clinical research in IT therapy is ongoing.
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Polyanalgesic Consensus Conference 2007: Recommendations for the Management of Pain by Intrathecal (Intraspinal) Drug Delivery: Report of an Interdisciplinary Expert Panel
Timothy R. Deer,Elliot S. Krames,Samuel J. Hassenbusch,Allen W. Burton,David Caraway,Stuart DuPen,James C. Eisenach,Michael A. Erdek,Eric Grigsby,Phillip Kim,Robert Levy,Gladstone C. McDowell,Nagy Mekhail,Sunil Panchal,Joshua P. Prager,Richard Rauck,Michael Saulino,Todd Sitzman,Peter S. Staats,Michael Stanton-Hicks,Lisa Stearns,K. Dean Willis,William W. Witt,Kenneth A. Follett,Marc A. Huntoon,Leong Liem,James P. Rathmell,Mark S. Wallace,Eric Buchser,Michael J. Cousins,Anne Ver Donck +30 more
TL;DR: An expert panel of physicians convened in 2007 to update previous recommendations and to form guidelines for the rational use of intrathecal opioid and nonopioid agents.
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Polyanalgesic consensus conference 2003: an update on the management of pain by intraspinal drug delivery— report of an expert panel
Samuel J. Hassenbusch,Russell K. Portenoy,Michael J. Cousins,Eric Buchser,Timothy R. Deer,Stuart Du Pen,James C. Eisenach,Kenneth A. Follett,Keith R. Hildebrand,Elliot S. Krames,Robert M. Levy,Pamela Pierce Palmer,James P. Rathmell,Richard Rauck,Peter S. Staats,Lisa Stearns,K. Dean Willis +16 more
TL;DR: A Polyanalgesic Consensus Conference 2003 was organized to review the literature on intraspinal drug infusion and develop guidelines for optimizing drug dosage and concentration and to clarify issues pertaining to compounding of drugs.
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Evidence-Based Review of the Literature on Intrathecal Delivery of Pain Medication
Gary J. Bennett,Mario Serafini,Kim J. Burchiel,Eric Buchser,Ashley Classen,Tim Deer,Stuart L. Du Pen,F. Michael Ferrante,Samuel J. Hassenbusch,Leland Lou,Jan Maeyaert,Richard Penn,Russell K. Portenoy,Richard Rauck,K. Dean Willis,Tony L. Yaksh +15 more
TL;DR: The need for additional large published controlled studies was highlighted by this review, especially for promising agents that have been shown to be safe and efficacious in recent clinical studies.
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Clinical guidelines for intraspinal infusion: Report of an expert panel
Gary J. Bennett,Kim J. Burchiel,Eric Buchser,Ashley Classen,Tim Deer,Stuart L. Du Pen,F. Michael Ferrante,Samuel J. Hassenbusch,Leland Lou,Jan Maeyaert,Richard Penn,Russell K. Portenoy,Richard Rauck,Mario Serafini,K. Dean Willis,Tony L. Yaksh +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an internet-based survey of practitioners revealed remarkable variation in practice patterns surrounding intraspinal therapy for pain, which prompted an interdisciplinary panel with extensive clinical experience in intra-infusion therapy to evaluate the results of the survey, the systematic reviews of the literature pertaining to this approach, and their own clinical experience with long-term spinal infusions.