Here are seven essential insights on spine surgery performed in the outpatient setting:
Outpatient Spine
Steven Beer, MD, successfully used the OsseoScrew in a spine surgery case Nov. 29, 2018.
Reston-based Virginia Spine Institute added spine surgeon Ehsan Jazini, MD, to its team.
Atlanta-based Polaris Spine & Neurosurgery Center completed its 15th robotically navigated spine surgery.
Anthony Giuffrida, MD, a pain physician with Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Cantor Spine Institute, discusses his role as head of the pain management department and where he sees the field headed.
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Baptist Medical Park Surgery Center, an ASC located in Pensacola, Fla., is the first surgery center in the Southeast to purchase Mazor Robotics' Renaissance System.
Reston-based Virginia Spine Institute recorded the world's first spinal surgery using combined endoscopic and robotic-guided technology.
A study in Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery analyzed the positive predictive value of diagnostic 1 percent lidocaine containing transforaminal epidural steroid injections after outpatient endoscopic decompression for lumbar foraminal and lateral recess stenosis.
The ASC market is predicted to reach more than $92 billion by 2024, according to a Global Market Insights report.
A study in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine evaluated the effectiveness of using local anesthetic in endoscopic posterior decompression procedures for lumbar spinal stenosis patients.