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Perioperative Risk of and Monitoring for Hyperglycemia in Spine Surgery
… cohort of patients admitted following planned spine surgery between April 2010 and October 2013. Methods: Data were collected from electronic medical records for variables including age, gender, ethnicity, insurance status, diabetes status, HbA1c, ASA class, type and duration of surgery, and …
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Quality improvement strategies in complex spine surgery focused on value-based care
Contains fulltext : 307091.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The UT Southwestern Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health Program: Impact on Postoperative Delirium After Spine Surgery
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Validation and clinical Implementation of novel devices analysing physical activity and range of motion in the setting of spine surgery
… measure patient physical capabilities within the spine surgery setting. With a broad aim to introduce accurate and robust assessment tools that are not influenced by subjective patient factors and experiences our methods have been devised after a wide literature search to examine the current …
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Neurosurgery in Resource-Poor Settings: Improving Access to Surgical Education and Outcomes Analysis of Spine Surgery in a Training Hospital in Cambodia
… Access to basic surgical care, and neurosurgery in particular, has historically been a neglected topic in the global health sphere. However, up to 30% of the global burden of disease is surgical in nature and great strides have been made in the past few years to spotlight and begin to …
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Risk, Outcomes, and Costs in Neurosurgery – The New Frontier in Health Services Research
… Health services research driven from within neurosurgery can be used to improve access to and quality of care, while helping to control costs. Aim: To answer clinically relevant questions that make a difference in patient care.Methods: We chose to use the American College of Surgeons National …
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INTEGRATION OF NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT IN ORTHOPEDICS: DIETARY AND NUTRITIONAL ASPECTS OF SURGICAL PATIENTS
The nutritional support in orthopedic surgery is an unclear idea to date. In these years, the goal of this project has been to clarify what is meant by nutritional support in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement and spine surgery, demonstrating its value in relation to the perioperative …
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Analysis of Entry Point of Pedicle Screw Placement in the Lumbar Spine
… be applied in the fields of minimally invasive spine surgery. Surgeon implanting lumbar pedicle screws should use this new entry point that is alternative methods to obtain accurate entry to the pedicle.
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MR assessment of the adjacent segment degeneration after discography
… disc and accelerated disc degeneration in lumbar spine. We aimed to assess whether discography affect the acceleration of disc degeneration at the adjacent levels of lumbar fusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 113 discs of 58 patients (ALIF 19, PLF 22, decompression 17) who had undergone a …
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Presurgical Behavioral Medicine Evaluation for Implantable Devices for Pain Management: Clinical Effectiveness for Predicting Outcomes
… was designed to evaluate patients prior to spine surgery. The algorithm showed strong outcome predictability in previous studies (Block et al., 2003). A PBME was administered to 60 patients being evaluated for implantable devices at a major pain center that provides interdisciplinary pain …
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Investigating Resource Utilization in Elective Spine Patients with Affective Disorders: A Retrospective Analysis of a Cohort of 1199 Elective Spine Patients
BACKGROUND: In elective spine surgery patients, affective disorders (ADs) are associated with increased preoperative opioid use to control pain, longer length of hospital stays, and increased postoperative readmission rates. When assessing healthcare resource utilization, how ADs influence …
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THE EFFECT OF INTRAWOUND VANCOMYCIN POWDER ON SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS IN POSTERIOR INSTRUMENTED SPINAL ARTHRODESES
… acute, deep S. aureus infections following spine surgery. Introduction: Surgical site infection is a serious complication for patients undergoing instrumented spinal surgery. Staphylococcus aureus is the most common causative agent associated with post-op wound infections. Recent studies …
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Put Your Back Into It: A Structural and Mechanical Characterization of Iliac Crest and Cervical Spine Autograft for ACDF Surgeries
… fusion (ACDF) is one of the most common cervical spine surgery procedures performed worldwide. ACDF utilizes autologous bone graft (autograft) from the iliac crest to induce fusion between neighboring vertebrae following the procedure. The iliac crest is widely considered the gold-standard …
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Dysphagia and recurrent laryngeal nerve injury in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
Background: Cervical spine degenerative conditions effect up to two-thirds of the population and are the most common cause of acquired disability in patients over the age of 50. These disorders commonly present with axial pain, myelopathy, radiculopathy or a combination of these symptoms. Surgical …
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척추 수술에서 예방적 항생제 사용의 유용성
… antibiotics over any other for SSI in spinal surgery has not been clearly demonstrated. We designed a controlled clinical trial to compare the occurrence of SSI and the changes of hematologic results depending on prophylaxis regimens and protocols. The aim of this study was to compare the …
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Performance comparison between three-dimensionally printed patient-specific drill guides and the conventional free-hand technique for vertebral implant placement in the canine thoracolumbar spine: An ex-vivo study
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Virtual reality as complementary treatment after spinal fusion
… All patients admitted after lumbar spinal fusion surgery performed by the employed neurosurgeons were included in the intervention. Evaluation: Pain scores, length of stay, readmission rates, and morphine milligram equivalencies were documented and compared to patients who had undergone similar …