Publications
Book Publications: Editor of Books
I am an Editor of the six pain medicine books:
Atlas of Interventional Pain Management Procedures: A Stepwise Approach. Edited by Drs. DK Baheti, S Gupta, S Bakshi, and RP Gehdoo. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishing, New Dehli, London, 2023.
Oxford Specialist Hand Book in Oncology: Practical Management of Complex Cancer Pain. 2nd Edition, 2022, Oxford University Press.
The first edition of this book was Awarded First Prize in Oncology category & Winner "British Medical Association Medical Book of the Year Award 2015", chosen from 630 submissions
Oxford Specialist Handbook in Pain Medicine: Spinal Interventions in Pain Management. 2012. Oxford University Press. (2nd Edition in preparation).
Interventional Pain Management– A Practical approach. 3rd Edition. 2025. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. New Delhi / London.
Symptom Oriented Pain Management. 3rd Edition. 2025. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. New Delhi / London.
World Clinics: Pain Management. 2013. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. New Delhi / London.
Recent Publications (since 2019):
First Author:
S Gupta, et al. Metaphors and Analogies in Pain Management – A Survey of 142 health care professionals. Indian Journal of Pain 2025; 39(1): 24-28.
S Gupta, et al. Technical challenges of performing S1 root block: role for double & multilevel needle technique. British Journal of Pain 2021; 15 (2): 129-133.
S Gupta. Pre-Contrast Injection Multiple Needle Placement Technique for Challenging TFESI for Radicular Pain. Pain Medicine Case Reports 2020; 4 (2): 39-44.
S Gupta, et al. Interventional Pain Practice in the UK and the USA: A Survey of 242 Pain Physicians. Pain Physician 2020; 23: 127-134.
S Gupta, et al. Guidance Documents: A Guide to Development, Dissemination & Review. Transmitter Spring 2020; FPM, pp12-13.
S Gupta, et al. Awareness of the Guidelines Published by the FPM and BPS: A National Survey. BPS Pain News 2019; 17(4):184-187.
Co-author of articles:
Perioperative management of antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy in patients undergoing interventional techniques: 2024 updated guidelines from The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP). Pain Physician 2024; 27: S1 – S94.
Health Service Research: Methodology for Evidence Synthesis and Development of Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guidelines for Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain. Pain Physician 2021; 24: S1 – S26
Epidural Guidelines: Epidural Interventions in the Management of Chronic Spinal Pain: American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guidelines. Pain Physician 2021; 24: S27-S208
Recent Chapters in Books:
First author / contributed to 5 chapters in the book: Interventional Pain Management – A practical approach. Eds. Baheti DK, Bakshi S, Gupta S, Gehdoo RP, 3rd ed. 2025. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, New Delhi / London.nt, Dissemination & Review. Transmitter Spring 2020; FPM, pp12-13.
1. Metaphors and analogies for patients and health care professionals.
2. Stimulation Guided Pain Mapping.
3. Cervical Medial Branch Block.
4. Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation.
5. Epiduroscopy for Patients with Lumbosacral Radicular Pain.
First author / contributed to 10 chapters in the book: Atlas of Interventional Pain Management Procedures: A Stepwise Approach. Eds. Baheti DK, Gupta S, Bakshi S, Gehdoo RP, 2023. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, New Delhi / London.
1. S1 Nerve Root Block and Technical Challenges.
2. Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections: Technical Challenges.
3. Fluoroscopy for Minimally Invasive Spinal and Trigeminal Procedures.
4. Pudendal Nerve Block and Pulsed Radiofrequency Procedure.
5. Cervical Radiofrequency Denervation in Lateral Patient Position.
6. Lumbar Medial Branch Block and Radiofrequency Ablation.
7. Sacroiliac Joint Block.
8. Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency/ Thermal Ablation.
9. Transforaminal Lumbar Epidural Block.
10. Cervical Medial Branch Block.
Oxford Specialist Hand Book in Oncology: Practical Management of Complex Cancer Pain. 2nd Edition published in 2022.
Oxford Specialist Hand Book in Oncology: Practical Management of Complex Cancer Pain. 2014.Oxford University Press. ISBN 978 0 19 966162 1.
This book was Awarded First Prize in Oncology category & Winner "BMA Medical Book of the Year Award 2015", chosen from 630 submissions
Atlas of Interventional Pain Management Procedures: A Stepwise Approach. Eds. Baheti DK, Gupta S, Bakshi S, Gehdoo RP, 2022. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India.
Interventional Pain Management– Practical approach . 2nd Edition. Febraury 2016. Jaypee Brothers. Medical Publishers. ISBN 978 93 5250 166 3
World Clinics: Pain Management. 2013. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. ISBN 978 93 5090 312 4
Symptom Oriented Pain Management. 2012. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. ISBN 978 93 5025 797 5
Interventional Pain Management– Practical approach. 1st Edition. 2009. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. ISBN 978 81 8448 319 2
Major contribution to knowledge base on pain and its management through scientific or clinical research.
Dr Gupta’s research is clinically oriented with emphasis on improving safety and setting standards in pain medicine. He has conduced several surveys focusing on setting standards in pain management to improve patient care and has presented several of them at the BPS annual meetings over the years, the last one being in 2023.
Dr Gupta conducted a survey of some of the guidelines published by the BPS and FPM to evaluate their outreach. Nearly 50% HCP’s were unaware of many published guidelines. He led and developed the FPM Guideline Implementation Guidelines and published this in the FPM Transmitter 2021 - Guidance Documents: A Guide to Development, Dissemination & Review (Transmitter Spring 2020; FPM, pp12-13.)
Dr Gupta has described and published a new technique of performing sacroiliac joint injection and has developed and published 2 improvised techniques for image guided epidural injections for sciatic pain:
• S Gupta. Double Needle Technique: An Alternative Method for Performing Difficult SIJ Injections. Pain Physician 2011; 14: 281-284
• S Gupta, et al. Technical challenges of performing S1 root block: role for double needle and multilevel needle technique. British Journal of Pain 2021; vol 15 (2): 129-133
• S Gupta. Pre-Contrast Injection Multiple Needle Placement Technique: An Alternative Method for Performing Challenging Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections for Radicular Pain. Pain Medicine Case Report 2020; Vol 4 (2): 39-44.
Dr Gupta is an editor of 6 books on pain management. The Oxford Specialist Hand Book in Oncology: Practical Management of Complex Cancer Pain. 2014. Oxford University Press, was a warded the first Prize in Oncology category and winner of the "BMA Medical Book of the Year Award 2015" (chosen from 630 submissions). The updated 2nd Edition of this book was published in 2022.
Dr Gupta is an Editor of the Atlas of Interventional Pain Procedures – A Stepwise Approach. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, Ltd. India. 2022. He has contributed 10 chapters in this book and over 200 anonymised digital x-ray images. Excellent review of the atlas in the journal “Pain Physician” in 2023.
Dr Gupta is an editor of the Oxford Specialist Handbook in Pain Medicine: Spinal Interventions in Pain Management. 2012. ISBN 978 0 19 958691 2. The second edition of this book is in preparation.
Dr Gupta is an editor of: Interventional Pain Management– Practical approach. 3nr Edition (in press); Symptom Oriented Pain Management. 3rd edition (in press); World Clinics: Pain Management.
In addition to being an editor of the above books, Dr Gupta has contributed several chapters in different pain management books and has encouraged several colleagues in the UK to contribute to the books he has edited.
Dr Gupta conducted a survey of 242 pain physicians (UK & USA) which showed a wide variation in performance of spinal interventions. He published this data highlighting treatment factors that should be standardized to improve patient outcome and safety and presented in an International meeting in the USA in 2019.
Chapters in the Book
Atlas of Interventional Pain Management Procedures: A Stepwise Approach. Eds. Baheti DK, Gupta S, Bakshi S, Gehdoo RP, 2022. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India.
I am an Editor and the Principle Author of the following chapters in the above mentioned book.
1. S1 Nerve Root Block and Technical Challenges.
2. Fluoroscopy for Minimally Invasive Spinal and Trigeminal Procedures.
3. Pudendal Nerve Block and Pulsed Radiofrequency Procedure.
4. Sacroiliac Joint Block.
5. Cervical Medial Branch Block.
6. Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections: Technical Challenges.
I am the second Author of the following chapters in the above mentioned book.
1. Cervical Radiofrequency Denervation in Lateral Patient Position.
2. Lumbar Medial Branch Block and Radiofrequency Ablation.
3. Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency/ Thermal Ablation.
4. Transforaminal Lumbar Epidural Block.
Management of Low Back Pain and Sciatica. In: The 10-minute consultation: Persistent pain, 2015. Eds: M Johnson, A Taylor. Cedilla Publishing Limited Pages 48 to 57
Stimulation Guided Pain Mapping; Suprascapular Nerve block; Cervical Medial Branch Block; Sacroiliac Joint Block; Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation; Epiduroscopy for Patients with Lumbosacral Radicular Pain. In: Interventional Pain Management– Practical approach. 2nd Edition. Febraury 2016. Eds: Drs Baheti, Bakshi. Gupta, Gehdoo. ISBN 978 93 5250 166 3
Management of Chronic Low Back Pain and Sciatica. In: The 10-minute consultation: Persistent Pain. Eds: M Johnson & A Taylor 2015. ISBN 978 1 905982 10 3
Mesothelioma and Chest Wall Pain. In: Oxford Specialist Hand Book in Oncology: Practical Management of Complex Cancer Pain. 2014. Eds: Sharma, Simpson, Bennett, Gupta. ISBN 978 0 19 966162 1
Focal Back Pain. In Symptom Oriented Pain Management. Eds: Drs Baheti, Bakshi, Gupta, Gehdoo. 2012. ISBN 978 93 5025 797 5
Applied Anatomy and Fluoroscopy for Spinal Interventions. In: Oxford Specialist Handbook in Pain Medicine: Spinal Interventions in Pain Management. 2012. ISBN 978 0 19 958691 2
Stimulation Guided Pain Mapping; Sacroiliac Joint Block; Epiduroscopy for Chronic Low Back Pain and Radiculopathy. In Interventional Pain Management – A Practical approach. 2009
Nerves: anatomy and function; Recovery: general considerations. In Notes in Neuroanaesthesia and Critical Care. Eds. Arun Gupta and Andy Summors. Greenwich Medical Media Limited 2001.
Anaesthesia for carotid surgery. In. Textbook book of Neuroanaesthesia and Neuro Critical Care.Eds Matta , Menon and Turner.
S1 Nerve Root Block and Technical Challenges. Sanjeeva Gupta, Manohar Sharma, Sanjay Bakshi.
Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections: CHAPTER Technical Challenges. Sanjeeva Gupta, Dwarkadas K Baheti, Sanjay Bakshib
Fluoroscopy for Minimally Invasive Spinal and CHAPTER Trigeminal Procedures. Sanjeeva Gupta, Ganesan Baranidharan, Manohar Sharma, Harun Gupta.
Pudendal Nerve Block and Pulsed Radiofrequency Procedure. Sanjeeva Gupta
Cervical Radiofrequency Denervation in Lateral CHAPTER Patient Position. Sherdil Nath, Sanjeev Gupta.
Lumbar Medial Branch Block and Radiofrequency Ablation. Anil Sharma, Sanjeeva Gupta
Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency/ Thermal Ablation. Samir Ranjit Jani, Sanjeeva Gupta
Sacroiliac Joint Block. Sanjeeva Gupta
Transforaminal Lumbar Epidural Block. Dwarkadas K Baheti, Sanjeeva Gupta.
Cervical Medial Branch Block. Sanjeeva Gupta.
Journal Publications
S Gupta, G Gupta, G Baranidharan, M Sharma. Technical challenges of performing S1 root block: role for double needle and multilevel needle technique. British Journal of Pain 2021; vol 15 (2): 129-133. Click here to view
L Manchikanti, S Atluri, MV Boswell, ------- S Gupta, et al. Health Service Research: Methodology for Evidence Synthesis and Development of Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guidelines for Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain. Pain Physician 2021; 24: S1 – S26
L Manchikanti, NN Knezevic, A Navani, ------ S Gupta, et al. Epidural Guidelines: Epidural Interventions in the Management of Chronic Spinal Pain: American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guidelines. Pain Physician 2021; 24: S27-S208
S Gupta, M Brown. Guidance Documents: A Guide to Development, Dissemination and Review. Transmitter Spring 2020; Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anesthetists, London, pp12-13
S Gupta. Pre-Contrast Injection Multiple Needle Placement Technique: An Alternative Method for Performing Challenging Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections for Radicular Pain. Pain Medicine Case Report 2020; Vol 4 (2): 39-44
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S Gupta, M Sharma. Interventional Pain Medicine Practice in the UK and the USA: A Survey of 242 Pain Physicians. Pain Physician 2020; 23: 127-134
S Gupta. Pre-Contrast Injection Multiple Needle Placement Technique: An Alternative Method for Performing Challenging Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections for Radicular Pain. IPM Report (Jan/Feb 2020). Click here to view
S Gupta, M Sharma. Interventional Pain Medicine Practice in the UK and the USA: A Survey of 242 Pain Physicians. Pain Physician 2020; 23: 127-134
S Gupta, M Sharma. Awareness of the Guidelines Published by the Faculty of Pain Medicine and the British Pain Society: A National Survey of Pain Medicine Consultants. British Pain Society Pain News. Pain News, December 2019, Volume 17(4), Page 184-187
S Gupta, et al. Top 5 Abstracts from the 11th Annual North England Pain Medicine Group Meeting. British Journal of Pain 2019; Vol. 13(3) Supplement 2, Page 1 – 6.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2049463719865408
Simopoulos TT, -- Gupta S, et al. Systematic Review of the Diagnostic Accuracy and TherapeuticEffectiveness of Sacroiliac Joint Interventions. Pain Physician 2015; 18:E713-E756 • ISSN 2150-1149
Alan D. Kaye, --- Gupta S, et al. Efficacy of Epidural Injections in Managing Chronic Spinal Pain: A Best Evidence Synthesis. Pain Physician 2015; 18:E939-E1004
Boswell MV, ----Gupta S, et al. A Best-Evidence systematic appraisal of the diagnostic accuracy and utility of facet joint nerve injections in chronic spinal pain. Pain Physician 2015; 18: E497-E533
Manchikanti L, ---- Gupta S, et al. A systematic review of efficacy and best evidence synthesis of therapeutic facet joint interventions in managing chronic spinal pain. Pain Physician 2015; 18: E535-E582
Boswell MV, -- Gupta s, et al. A Best-Evidence Systematic Appraisal of the Diagnostic Accuracy and Utility of Facet (Zygapophysial) Joint Injections in Chronic Spinal Pain.Pain Physician 2015; 18:E497-E533 • ISSN 2150-1149
J Lee, S Gupta, C Price, AP Baranowski. Low back and radicular pain: a pathway for care developed by the British Pain Society. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2013; 111 (1): 112-120 (Impact Factor – 4.354)
Manchikanti L, --- Gupta S, et al. An Update of Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guidelines for Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain. Part I: Introduction and General Considerations. Pain Physician 2013; 16:S1-S48 • ISSN 1533-3159
Manchikanti L, -- Gupta S, et al. An Update of Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guidelines for Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain. Part II: Guidance and Recommendations. Pain Physician 2013; 16:S49-S283 • ISSN 1533-3159
S Gupta, M Gupta, S Nath, Michael Hess. Survey of European pain medicine practice. Pain Physician 2012; 15: E983-E994 (Impact Factor – 4.766)
N Collaghan, S Gupta, J Richardson, S Cheema. Comparison of the Effectiveness of Lumbar Transformational Epidural Injection with the Particulate and Non particulate Corticosteroids in Lumbar Radiating Pain. Pain Medicine 2011; 12(8): 1290–1291 (Impact Factor – 2.346)
S Gupta, A Williams, J Hill, O Hart, S Ward, J Timothy, C Hughes, E Killick. Pain Pathway: Spinal Pain. Pain News 2012; 10 (4): 202 – 206
Falco FJE, --- S Gupta, et al. Systematic Review of the Therapeutic Effectiveness of Cervical Facet Joint Interventions: An Update. Pain Physician 2012; 15:E839-E868 • ISSN 2150-1149
Falco FJE, -- S Gupta, et al. An Update of the Systematic Assessment of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Lumbar Facet Joint Nerve Blocks. Pain Physician 2012; 15:E869-E907 • ISSN 2150-1149
S Gupta. Double Needle Technique: An Alternative Method for Performing Difficult SIJ Injections. Pain Physician 2011; 14: 281-284
L Manchikanthi, S Gupta, et al. Critiquing the Critique: APS guidelines and ASIPPs response to it. Pain Physician 2011; 14: E69- 86 N Collighan, L Manchikanti, S Gupta, Epidural Steroid – Reply. Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical care and Pain 2011; 11 (1): 29
S Gupta, R Khanna, J Richardson, S Lindsay. Spinal Interventions and Anticoagulants – An Attempt to Classify Spinal Interventions for Chronic Pain into Higher and Lower Risk Procedures. Published as E-Letter in British Journal of Aanaesthesia. November 2010.
L Manchikanthi, S Datta, S Gupta, et al. A Critical Review of the American Pain Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Interventional Techniques: Part 2. Therapeutic Interventions. Pain Physician 2010; 10: E215 - E264.
L Manchikanthi, S Datta, S Gupta, et al. A Critical Review of the American Pain Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Interventional Techniques: Part 2. Therapeutic Interventions. Pain Physician 2010; 10: E215 - E264.
N Collighan, S Gupta. Epidural Steroid. Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical care and Pain 2010; 10 (1): 1 - 5.
J Richardson, N Collinghan, AJ Scally, S Gupta. Bilateral L1 and L2 dorsal root ganglion block for discogenic low back pain. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2009; 103 (3): 416-419.
M Garside, P Cramp, C Percy Clark, S Gupta. Oxygen prescribing in the postoperative period. Bradford Hospitals Clinical Guv’nor, Issue 7, January 2004.
S Gupta, V Palit, J Richardson, et al. Chronic postoperative pain following inguinal hernia repair – aprospective study. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 2003; 20 (suppl 30): 182.
C Holdsworth, S Gupta. Is your bougie helping or hindering you? Anaesthesia 2002; 57: 507.
J Richardson, P McGurgan, S Cheema, R Prasad, S Gupta. Spinal endoscopy in chronic low-back pain with radiculopathy: A prospective case series. Anaesthesia 2001; 56: 447-460.
S Gupta, N Kumar. Caudal Block. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine. 2001. 2:3: 93.
S Gupta, J Richardson. Negative pressure pulmonary oedema following cryotherapy. European Journal of Anaesthesiology. 2001.
S Gupta, J Francis, GE Porter, JMJ Valentine. An independent assessment of a supraregional pain management programme and comparison of patients’ and general practitioners’ perceptions of the effect. Anaesthesia 2000: 55; 374 - 380.
S Gupta, J Francis, AB Tillu, AI Sattirajah, J Sizer. The effect of pre-emptive acupuncture treatment on analgesic requirement after day case knee arthroscopy. Anaesthesia.
AK Gupta, P Hutchinson, P Al-Rawi, S Gupta, M Swart DK Menon, A Datta. Measuring brain tissue oxygenation compared with jugular venous oxygen saturation for monitoring cerebral oxygenation after traumatic brain injury. Anesthesia & Analgesia 1999; 88: 549-553.
A Raabe, DK Menon, S Gupta, M Czosnyka, JD Pickard. Jugular venous and arterial concentration of serum S-100B protein in patients with head injury : a pilot study. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 1998;65:930-932.
A Tillu, S Gupta. Effect of Acupuncture Treatment on Heel Pain due to Plantar Fasciitis. Acupuncture In Medicine1998; 16 (2): 66 – 68.
A Tillu, S Gupta. Is acupuncture safe in patients with morphine hypersensitivity? Acupuncture In Medicine1998; 16 (2): 105 - 106.
S Gupta, F Gilder, C Glazebrooke. Intrapartum management of a patient with Urticaria Pigmentosa.International Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia 1998;7:261-262.
S Gupta, D Niblett, MR Prabhu, MS Gupta. Severe non-ketotic hyperosmolar come – intensive care management. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 1998;15:603-606.
S Gupta, JW Wilson. Sevoflurane for inhalational induction in patients with anticipated difficult intubation. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 1998; 42:1232.
S Gupta, R Kavan, Mogra C. Matching appropriately sized Reinforced Laryngeal Mask Airways with Boyle Davis Gags for paediatric adenotonsillectomies. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 1999.
S Gupta, K Heath, BF Matta. The effect of incremental doses of sevoflurane on cerebral autoregulation in humans. British Journal of Anaesthesia 1997; 79: 469-472.
K Heath, S Gupta, BF Matta. The effect of sevoflurane on cerebral haemodynamics during propofol anaesthesia. Anaesthesia and Analgesia 1997; 85: 1283-1257.
S Gupta, P. Chari, Indu Bala, J Muralidhar. Phacomorphic Glaucoma - an unusual cause of post operative vomiting. Anaesthesia 1994; 49: 959- 960.
S Gupta, YK Batra, GD Puri, D Panigrahi, S Roy. Infection rates in single and double lumen central venous catheters in critically ill patients. The National Medical Journal Of India 1995; 8(3): 114-117.
S Gupta, J Muralidhar, S Grewal, P Chari. Anaesthetic management of a patient with an unusual upper airway injury. Journal of Anaesthesiology and Clinical Pharmacology 1995; 11: 145-146.
Grover VK, S Gupta, Sharma S, H Singh. Management of Tetanus - A review of 100 consecutive cases. Journal of Anaesthesiology and Clinical Pharmacology 1994; 10: 23-27.
P. Chari, S Gupta. Measurement and assessment of Pain in children and Adults--Review Article. Indian Journal of Pain 1993; 7: 4-12.
S Gupta, Sharma ML, Kalra R, Banerjee A, Wig J. Panel discussion on Post-Operative Analgesia. Indian Journal of Pain 1993; 7(1): 5-33.
Batra YK, S Gupta, ON Nagi, H Singh. Role of mechanical ventilation in Fat Embolism Syndrome: Our experience in ICU. Annals of the National Academy of Medical Sciences 1993; 29(1): 21-26.
Batra YK, S Gupta. Subclavian catheter tip malplacement in critically ill patient: A prospective radiological study. Journal of Anaesthesiology and Clinical Pharmacology 1993; 9: 105-107.
Batra YK, S Gupta. Pneumothorax following subclavian vein catheterization: A Prospective Study. Journal of Anaesthesiology and Clinical Pharmacology 1993; 9: 109-111
S. Gupta, P. Chari, M. Verma. Right sided aortic arch-diagnosis by Oximeter. Anaesthesia 1993;48:1108.