Anesthesiology / Pain Management

The department of Pain Management is a leader in the multidisciplinary approach to chronic pain.

With two locations, one at the main campus of Barnes-Jewish Hospital and at the Washington University Pain Management Center in west St. Louis county, we offer hope and a supportive environment for people suffering from debilitating pain.

The Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine provides expert anesthesia during surgery, utilizing the latest pharmaceutical agents to relieve pain while minimizing undesirable side-effects.

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Anthony H. Guarino, MD

Specialty Areas
Acute and Chronic Pain
Pain Management

Areas of Clinical Interest
Acute and chronic pain. Interventional pain management, nerve blocks, neurolysis, epidurals, intrathecal catheters, spinal cord stimulators, spinal diagnostics, radiofrequency neuroablation, discograms, intradiscal electrothermy -- IDET

Major or Recent Publications/Awards

Selected Journal Articles

Guarino AH. Use of Orlistat as treatment for intractable constipation. Pain Medicine, Accepted 2005

Patell JJP, Guarino AH. Pain Management. PMR Secrets, 2001

North RB, Guarino AH. Spinal Cord Stimulation for the failed back surgery syndrome: Technical advances, patient selection and outcome. Neuromodulation 1999; 2(3)

Guarino AH, Raja S. Terminology and pathogenisis of complex regional pain syndrome: Essential of pain medicine and regional anesthesia. Eds, Benzon HT, et al, 1999; pp 245-247

Guarino AH. Clarification of sympathetically mediated pain. NEJM 1998; 338:334-335

Guarino AH, Staats PS. Diagnostic Neural Blockade. Pain Digest July, 1997

Books and Book Chapters

Grabow TS, Guarino AH, Raja S. Terminology and Pathogenesis of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, In: Essentials of Pain Medicine and Regional Anesthesia, Benzon HT et al (editors), 2004

Guarino AH, Raja S. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Diagnosis, In: Essentials of Pain Medicine
Regional Anesthesia, Benzon HT et al, (editors), 2004

Grossman SA, Guarino AH. Pain Control in Genitourinary Malignancies. Comprehensive Textbook of Genitourinary Oncology. Eds. Vogelzang NJ, et al, Baltimore, MD, Williams and Wilkins, 1995

Salem M, Guarino AH, Chernow B. Adrenal Dysfunction in the Intensive Care Unit. Textbook of Critical Care Medicine, 3rd Edition. Eds. Shoemaker WC, et al. FL, WB Saunders Company, 1994

For more articles and abstracts, take this off-site link to the National Library of Medicine Pub Med page for Dr. Anthony H. Guarino

Anthony H. Guarino, MD