Researchers Asokumar Buvanendran, MD, and Vijay Thillainathan, MD, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, reviewed the current literature on anesthesia and analgesia for minimally invasive spine surgery and considered applying other principles used for other types of minimally invasive surgery. The study pointed out the importance of using multimodal analgesic therapy during preoperative visits and stress that multimodal analgesia should also be continued postoperatively.
According to the study, communication between the anesthesiologist and spine surgeon is essential to achieve a protocol with the best short- and long-term outcomes for the patient.
Read the abstract of the study in Spine.
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