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Category: Plancarte

  • Pain Management in Mexico

    Pain Management in Mexico

    [vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517939115140{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #fbfbfb !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Published on May 19, 2017

    Dr. Plancarte discusses his involvement in treating pain in Mexico, including his founding of the first pain clinic for cancer in his country. In the late 1980’s, there was an influx of women with cervical cancer, but there was no effective means readily available to treat the associated pain. It was then that he developed the superior hypogastric plexus block. He also introduced the ganglion of impar block to address the non-somatic pain, and these two techniques became the framework of interventional treatment of pelvic pain.

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  • Certifications in Spanish

    Certifications in Spanish

    [vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517939115140{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #fbfbfb !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Published on April 18, 2017

    Dr. Plancarte explains why having certification exams in Spanish has drastically increased the number of certified pain physicians, which has improved the quality and safety of pain management around the world. He further mentions that offering these exams in Spanish allows the Portuguese speaking physicians, mostly from Brazil and Portugal, the opportunity to become certificated, because Spanish is almost a second language for them, as opposed to Mandarin or English.

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  • Techniques to treat cancer pain

    Techniques to treat cancer pain

    [vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517939115140{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #fbfbfb !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Published on April 4, 2017

    Dr. Plancarte explains how he has helped to pioneer two important techniques in pain management. He briefly mentions a transdiscal approach he uses to treat neuropathy of the splanchnic nerves and why this technique is a safer way to treat abdominal viscera pain. He also discusses, in detail, how he performs a femoroplasty for treating the pain and preventing the pathological fractures in the upper femur from metastatic cancer. Dr. Plancarte discusses the cement injection and the c-arm imaging used for this novel procedure.

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