TABLE 3.

Patient Demographics of 35 Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) Patients and Purchased Opioids and Neuropathic Pain Medications Divided Into 1-Year Periods

					Mean daily opioid dose (MME)				Mean daily neuropathic medication dose (DDD)
	Gender	Age	Site of pain	Years from trauma to SCS	–2 yr	–1 yr	+1 yr	+2 yr	–2 yr	–1 yr	+1 yr	+2 yr
Permanent 1	Female	43	Left leg	1	0	0	0	0	0.05	0	0	0
Permanent 2	Male	40	Right leg	2	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	0	0
Permanent 3	Female	52	Right arm	3	0	0	8	0	0.05	0	0.05	0.22
Permanent 4	Female	50	Both arms	4	0	0	78	203	0.18	0.33	0.58	0.64
Permanent 5	Female	46	Left arm	4	8	8	41	26	0.61	0	0	0
Permanent 6	Female	58	Right arm	7	44	59	51	51	0	0.01	0	0
Permanent 7	Male	83	Right leg	3	0	0	0	0	0.29	0.31	0.27	0.42
Permanent 8	Male	56	Left arm	4	0	0	0	0	0.20	0	0	0
Permanent 9	Female	47	Right arm	2	0	0	0	0	0.01	0.04	0	0
Permanent 10	Female	26	Right leg	3	0	0	0	0	0.08	0	0	0
Permanent 11	Female	42	Both legs	13	0	0	0	0	0.27	0.46	0.92	0.49
Permanent 12	Female	58	Left arm	8	235	205	397	205	0.73	0.55	0.64	0.82
Permanent 13	Female	68	Left leg	8	0	0	0	0	0.19	0.15	0.13	0.13
Permanent 14	Female	60	Right leg	3	0	0	0	0	0.23	0.27	0.15	0
Permanent 15	Male	37	Right arm	4	0	0	0	66	0.05	0.05	0.35	0.40
Permanent 16	Female	47	Right leg	3	0	0	19	0	0.61	0.70	1.2	0.43
Permanent 17	Male	56	Left arm	9	0	88	159	237	0.90	1.0	1.0	0.15
Permanent 18	Female	61	Right arm	2	0	0	0	0	0.04	0	0	0
Permanent 19	Female	42	Left leg	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Explanted 1	Male	44	Right arm	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Explanted 2	Female	41	Right arm	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Explanted 3	Female	51	Right arm	9	0	0	0	47	0.35	1.3	1.6	1.4
Explanted 4	Male	35	Right leg	2	10	6	4	0	0.72	0.91	0.92	0.26
Explanted 5	Female	16	Left leg	6	0	0	1	0	0.21	0	0	0
Explanted 6	Male	58	Right arm	6	0	0	60	0	0.17	0	0.12	0
Explanted 7	Female	32	Left leg	2	0	0	0	86	0	1.7	0.37	0.33
Explanted 8	Female	49	Right leg	4	88	66	29	26	1.2	1.0	0.79	0.61
Trial 1	Female	54	Right arm	3	0	0	0	0	0.55	0.50	0.68	0.45
Trial 2	Female	56	Right leg	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Trial 3	Male	58	Left leg	2	0	0	0	0	0.06	0.04	0	0
Trial 4	Female	59	Left arm	9	183	180	155	180	0.85	0.58	0.96	1.4
Trial 5	Female	28	Pelvis	1	0	3	10	5	0.12	0	0.25	0.50
Trial 6	Male	65	Left arm	2	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	0	0
Trial 7	Female	52	Right arm	5	0	0	0	0	0.52	0.63	0.58	0.57
Trial 8	Male	60	Right leg	1	0	2	2	0	0.04	0.88	0.87	0.69
Summary (mean ± SD)		49 ± 13		4.3 ± 2.9	16 ± 51	18 ± 48	29 ± 75	32 ± 67	0.13 ± 0.40	0.20 ± 0.53	0.16 ± 0.47	0.15 ± 0.44

Mean daily opioid dose (MME) = mean daily opioid dose purchased in morphine milligram equivalent (MME) during a 1-yr periods related to the SCS implantation date; mean daily neuropathic medication dose (DDD) = mean daily neuropathic medication purchased in defined daily dose (DDD) during a 1-yr periods related to the SCS implantation date; permanent = SCS implanted and in use throughout the follow-up period; explanted = SCS implanted but explanted before the end of the follow-up; trial = SCS trial only.