Outpatient Spine

Future Market insights anticipates the global ASC market will grow at a 3.9 percent compound annual growth rate, reaching $108.5 billion by 2026.

Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute and the Spine Institute at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, both located in Hartford, joined the National Orthopaedic and Spine Alliance, according to hartfordbusiness.com.

A new study published in Spine compares spinal procedures performed in the outpatient hospital department to the ASC.

New Bedford, Mass.-based SouthCoast Health opened its latest Brain and Spine Center at St. Luke's Hospital, also in New Bedford, SouthCoast Today reports.

Michael Berry, MD, spoke with WQAD 8 on spine surgery moving to the outpatient setting.

Kingsley Chin, MD, authored a study examining the percentage of patients in his practice eligible for outpatient spine surgery in an ambulatory setting.

Two recent studies published in The Spine Journal examine spine surgery in the outpatient setting.

Mark McFarland, DO, leveraged SpineFrontier's A-CIFT SoloFuse-P technology with an angled driver design to perform an outpatient C4-6 anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.

Sunny Uppal, MD, of Riverside, Calif.-based Glenwood Surgical Center, outlines considerations for ASCs before diving into the spine service as well as which spine procedure he believes will shift to the outpatient arena next.

Tampa-based Laser Spine Institute boasts an overall low complication rate and has cared for thousands of patients over the past 12 years.