Education
Medical school
Dr. Rivera attended University Central Del Caribe Escuela De Medicina and graduated in
1994 (28 years ago).
About Me
Dr. Rivera works at Tampa Pain Relief Center Inc, which has 35 other health providers.
- Interventional Pain Management
- Anesthesiology
- 28+ years
- Male
- 1215919485
As an interventional pain management and anesthesiology, Dr. Rivera may see patients with the following conditions. Please check with Dr. Rivera what conditions he treats. Dr. Rivera may treat additional conditions not listed.
- Cancer pain
- Facet arthropathy
- General anesthesia
- Herniated disc
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain medication management
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Postherpetic neuralgia
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Regional anesthesia
Specialties
Dr. Rivera is an interventional pain management and anesthesiology. His primary specialty is interventional pain management.
Interventional Pain Management
Interventional pain management or interventional pain medicine is a medical subspecialty defined by the National Uniforms Claims Committee (NUCC) as, "invasive interventions such as the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing sub acute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatment."
Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology, or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, and pain medicine. The core element of the specialty is the study and use of anesthesia to safely support a patient's vital functions through the perioperative period.