Dr. Francis Michael Ferrante MD
Pain Management Specialist | Pain Medicine
10833 Le Conte Ave Los Angeles CA, 90095About
Dr. Francis Ferrante practices Pain Medicine in Los Angeles, CA. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Ferrante serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Education and Training
New York Med Coll- Valhalla Ny 1980
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Pain Medicine- 1993
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- 1987
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- High-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of the 2-chloroprocaine metabolite, diethylaminoethanol, in blood and serum.
- Neuraxial infusion in the management of cancer pain.
- Irreversible spinal cord injury as a complication of subarachnoid ethanol neurolysis.
- Extramedullary intrathecal catheter granuloma adherent to the conus medullaris presenting as cauda equina syndrome.
- Evidence against trigger point injection technique for the treatment of cervicothoracic myofascial pain with botulinum toxin type A.
- New onset lumbar radicular pain after implantation of an intrathecal drug delivery system: imaging catheter migration.
- Health-related quality of life in sacroiliac syndrome: a comparison to lumbosacral radiculopathy.
- Low back pain patients unresponsive to an epidural steroid injection: identifying predictive factors.
- The difference between acute and chronic pain.
- The American Society Of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and the European Society Of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy Joint Committee recommendations for education and training in ultrasound guided regional anesthesia: why do we need these
- Diagnosis of unintentional subdural anesthesia/analgesia: analyzing radiographically proven cases to define the clinical entity and to develop a diagnostic algorithm.
- Patient-controlled epidural analgesia: demand dosing.
- Most reported subdural injections are not in the subdural space, they are intradural! Reply to dr. Collier.
- Intrathecal bupivacaine for chronic pain: a review of current knowledge.
- Botulinum toxin type a injections for cervical and shoulder girdle myofascial pain using an enriched protocol design.
Treatments
- Cancer Pain, Neck Pain, Pain Management And More
Fellowships
- Anesthesiology/Pain Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital 1986
- Infectious Disease, Barnes-Jewish Hospital 1983
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