Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Aug 2024
Non-inferiority study assessing the utility of postcervical and lumbar radiofrequency ablation steroid use.
Many physicians administer steroids after radiofrequency ablation (RFA) to mitigate postprocedural inflammation and decrease postprocedural pain. However, robust evidence supporting the benefits of steroids after RFA is lacking and steroids have risks. ⋯ This study suggests that the addition of steroids to the RFA procedure does not provide added benefits and is therefore not worth the additional risks that they pose.