Despite advances in medicine and innovations in many underpinning fields including
disease prevention and control, the Spaulding classification system, originally proposed in …

Study Design. Systematic review. Objective. The aim of this review is to present an overview
of robotic spine surgery (RSS) including its history, applications, limitations, and future …

Objective. The primary purpose was to propose patient selection criteria and perioperative
best practices that can serve as a starting point for an ambulatory lumbar fusion program …

Background Regional differences in acceptance and utilization of MISST by spine surgeons
may have an impact on clinical decision-making and the surgical treatment of common …

Purpose With lumbar laminectomy increasingly being performed on an outpatient basis,
optimal pain management is critical to avoid post-operative delay in discharge and …

This study was aimed to provide a brief historical perspective to facilitate appreciation of
current techniques, describe outcomes of endoscopic lumbar surgery relative to those of …

Safety of Outpatient Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion... : Neurosurgery Safety of
Outpatient Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND CONTEXT While free-standing ambulatory surgical centers
(ASCs) have been extolled as lower cost settings than hospital outpatient …

Current advancements in spine surgery have led to a recent interest in regional anesthesia
for spine surgery. Spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, and their combination are …

Purpose Full-endoscopic techniques are minimally invasive surgery alternatives to
traditional spinal surgery. We performed a systematic review of the literature to assess the …