Outpatient Spine

Alexander Taghva, MD, of Orange County Neurosurgical Associates in Mission Viejo, Calif., discusses where he sees the biggest impact of spine technology going forward.

Here are four spine-focused Q&As published in Becker's ASC Review:

Here are seven essential insights on spine surgery performed in the outpatient setting:

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.

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.