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Patient Selection StrategiesResearch Studies and Others
Joel R Saper, MD, FACP,FAAN
Founder/Director, Michigan Head Pain and Neurological Institute
Ann Arbor, Mi
Clinical Professor of Neurology, MSU
NANS, 2012
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“It not so much what’s done to the head but to whose head it’s
done”!
Saper, 1992
Procedure Success and Adequate Reimbursement
Depend on Fulfillment of Key Clinical Outcomes:
•Sustained reduction of pain
•Improved Function
•Overall cost reduction(utilization)
•Achieving value in the delivery of the care
Some Barriers and Confounding Features
• Wrong Diagnosis• Inadequate science/ the illness trumps the knowledge• Long duration opioid dependency• Mod./severe psychological disturbance• Patient commitment to disability: “I want to feel better
but not get better”• Enrolling “Nothing has ever worked at all” patients• Absence of objective/genetic markers• Others
SYNDROME OF MEDICATION OVERUSE HEADACHE
Characteristics of Rebound Headache
• Occurs in patients with pre-existing HA
• Regular intake, more than 2-3d/wk, for months
• A self-sustaining rhythm of predictable, reliable & escalating HA frequency & med. use
• Refractory to otherwise appropriate symptomatic & preventive treatments
• Med withdrawal results in escalation of HA
Saper JR. 1983,1992,1999
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In HA patients, at least, opioids induce progression
of pathology and refractoriness to
appropriate treatment
Pain Has Power
•Pain communicates•Pain can control others•Pain can instill guilt•Pain prevents abandonment•Pain protects•Pain and disability pay $ And it cannot be proven or disproved
How can some patients say they are better?
• Disability lost• Performance expectations: job, family, marital• No more opioids• Relinquishing special status/protections/reduced expectations• Some spouses/relatives are only attentive when partner is ill
Chronic impairment and disability, role reversals and drug dependency may lock even motivated people into a sick role
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Some patients become “illness locked”!
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The Goal:
Choose patients for studies and interventional treatment that can
and will benefit and report benefit if therapy is effective!
Recommendations for Study/Intv Patients1
• Chronic pain/disability lasting no more than 2-4 years (avoid “locked in” patients)
• Use of opioids limited, compliant, and relatively short term (use state to state drug monitoring programs)
• No evidence of Axis II, cluster B psych illness (borderline, narcissistic, sociopathic)
• Absence of severe Axis I disorders: anxiety, depression, OCD, Bipolar D or somatizational conditions
• Absence of multiple chronic pain disorders
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Recommendations for Study/Intv. Patients2
• Previous non-pain procedures (dental, GYN, etc.) without notable sequelae
• Motivated to regain functional status and recovery
• Willingness to give up opioids• Hasn’t failed ALL therapies: some at least
modest elements of improvement along the way. NO end stage “failed everything” patients
• Supportive, reasonably healthy, family relationships with collateral support
• Avoid patients critical of or sued doc(s)• AVOID the HARDCORE, ENTRENCHED PAIN
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Methods• Entry criteria must include “failure certain” or
clinically confounding exclusions,PMP screens• Well chosen, strategically designed end points• Well designed psych screening
tools/battery;experienced/ ”street smart” pain psychologist
• Accurate drug use, treatment path, and functional history/ obtaining collateral info from other docs
• Experienced consultants to review study/treatment eligibility
• Develop genetic therapeutic response markers• Screen out likely placebo responders(Rezai)
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A Patient Selection Quiz
Dr Rezai, what do you think?
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The patient was narcotized, pasteurized, analyzed,
surgerized, anesthetized, hypnotized, herbalized,
pulverized, paralyzed(Botox), magnetized, homogenized and vibratized---- and still has pain.
Saper,2000
“Shove your behavior contract up your a-- , Doctor!”
“You’re calling me a drug addict, aren’t you? I said want my Demerol!”
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“My Oxy fell down the toilet”
“My dog ate my narcotics” (but not her ibuprofen)
Dogs that love opioids…
• OxyCollie
• OxyRetriever
• PercoSpanial
• VicoCocker
• Morphi-Yorkie
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A 39 y/o F. with intractable LBP, has Borderline PD, Bipolar
disorder, takes 860mg/day of Oxycontin, ,and has sued her last interventionalist for neglect and
abandonment. Offers to endow a university chair in your name with
a $10M grant.
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“Treating pain is a thinking sport”
Dr Jeff Okeson, 2003
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“Treating some borderline patients is a blood sport!
Saper, 2006
“What do you mean I have a borderline personality? I’ve never even been to Mexico!”
--a perplexed borderline patient
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“Justice will be served only when the last lawyer on earth has been
strangled with the intestines of the last politician”!
George Bernard Shaw