ERgirl Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Do PAs do pain management spine procedures such as epidural spinal injections and facet nerve blocks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgriffiths Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 I know of some that do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaepora Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 You absolutely can. I work in IR and we have PAs and NPs do ESIs, transforaminals, facet joints, SI joints, hip and shoulder, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator ventana Posted February 18, 2017 Moderator Share Posted February 18, 2017 yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERgirl Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 Does anybody know if there is a training program for those type of procedurea? Thanks in advance Sent from my SM-N900P using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMD16 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Yes. Don't expect to start doing these procedures your first day on the job :) Look into pain management or anesthesiologist CME and only attend workshop of your interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERgirl Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runforhotdogs Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Is pain management lucrative for PAs? A family member is but then again he's an anesthesiologist by training. It doesnt seem like pain management PAs make that much pay compared to dermatology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfruit28 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 I knew a pain management PA who was working in a very rural/remote area making $135,000 + several tens of thousand dollars in bonuses a year. Supply and demand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PainFree Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 I'm practicing in Florida and have been in spine surgery and interventional pain management for the last 15 years. I would like to add esi's to my "quiver" of billable procedures and have been trained appropriately, but can't find any supporting documentation other than FL statute "doh-03-1216" that addresses "scope of practice". Which is itself, unclear, stating only PA's graduating from Board certified Anestheiology Assistant programs are allowed to perform ESI's under direct supervision. Well if I graduated from an AA program I wouldn't be a PA, I would be an AA. And my PA program also had an AA program which is board-certified, so where does that leave me? Clear as mud. I'm interested in what states the above Interventional Radiology PA's are practicing and if you might have direct links to legislation documentation which addresses PA's performing epidurals and or administering radiographic contrast. Anybody? Maybe I need to move out of Florida! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbeTheBabe Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Yes, there are. Probably need experience though. I'm comfortable doing injections in ortho (knee, shoulder, elbow, U/S hip). I assume this training would help if I branched out to that direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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