Over 100 million Americans are living with chronic pain

Pain is the most common reason that patients seek medical attention.

Despite the prevalence of pain, the practice of pain management and the scientific pain research are relatively new fields compared to the rest of medicine.

As a Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) scholar, Harvard Pain Research Center Researcher and Visiting Professor in several countries including Brazil, Scotland and Netherlands, I have contributed to the development to our pain field by publishing several papers in peer reviewed scientific magazines. 

 

Specific Introduction to each article

 

This article shows the unrecognized anticoagulant effects of antidepressants. The concomitant use of antidepressants and antiplatelet or anticoagulant agents put patients at risk for epidural hematomas.

Chien G; McCormick Z, Araujo M et al. The potential contributing effect of ketorolac and fluoxetine to a spinal epidural hematoma following a cervical interlaminar epidural steroid injection: A case report and narrative review. Pain Physician 2014; 17: E385-E395. 

 

This book chapter reviews common and  unique complications of each procedure done in several pain clinics for the treatment of pain.  This book chapter is used for new pain specialists preparing to get their specialty certification examination in Pain Management. 

Araujo M; Patel N; More O’ Ferrall D. Complications of Interventional Pain Management Techniques. Deer T; Leong M; Ray A; Gordin V; Buvanendran A; Panchal S; Kim P. AAPM Textbook of Pain Medicine, 2013. 

 

This book chapter reviews common and unique complications of each procedure done in pain clinics all over the world for the treatment of pain.  

Araujo M; Patel N; More O’ Ferrall D. Complications of Interventional Techniques. Laxmaiah M; Christo P; Falco F; Trescot A. Pain Medicine & Interventional Pain Management. A Comprehensive Review. ASIPP 2012 

 

This book chapter reviews common and unique complications of pain procedures done by anesthesiologists.

Araujo M; More-O’Ferrall D; Richeimer, S. Complications of interventional pain management procedures. Advances in Anesthesia 2008; 26 1-30. 

 

This is our groundbreaking research on how neuropathic pain establishes in phases after a nerve injury in sprague-dawley rats. Groundbreaking research written during my research fellowship at the Harvard Pain Research Center at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Araujo MC; Sinnott CJ; Strichartz GC. Multiple phases of relief from mechanical allodynia by intravenous infusions of lidocaine. Differences between an early and a late infusion. PAIN 2003; 103: 21-29. 

 

New article when minimally invasive cardiac surgery started in the US.

Ortega RA, Araujo MC, Moreira G – Minimally invasive cardiac surgery-The anesthetic implications. Medico Interamericano 1998; 17(7)Pain Medicine: 352-358. 

 

Groundbreaking poster presentation at Society of Neuroscience 

Society for Neuroscience 31st Meeting on November10-15, 2001 in San Diego, CA – Multiple Phases of Relief from Mechanical Allodynia by Brief Infusions of Intravenous Lidocaine in Rats with Spinal Nerve Ligation 

 

Poster presentation on my research with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

IX Pan-American Meeting of Rheumatology on September 23, 1994 in Recife, Brazil – Cyclophosphamide Pulse Therapy in SLE: Late Follow-up in 40 patients