Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Prolonged opioid use prior to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion may increase the risk for ...

Degeneration Similar With, Without Disc Prosthesis Surgery Patients undergoing inpatient lumbar discectomy have significantly higher overall complication rates than those treated as outpatients.

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The trend towards ambulatory surgery for procedures previously limited to the inpatient setting is well established. [6,7,8,9,10,11] Trends in spinal surgery towards less invasive approaches and ...

Several studies published in the last decade examine the safety and efficacy of spine surgery in the outpatient ASC. Pugley et al. used the American College of Surgeons National Quality Improvement ...

March 11, 2009 (San Diego, California) — Oxygen/ozone injections into herniated lumbar discs are equal in efficacy to surgical discectomy in the areas of pain relief and function outcome, but the ...

Surgery to remove multiple herniated or degenerated discs in the neck, a procedure known as anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), can be safely performed in an outpatient setting in select ...

Researchers found performing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion procedures in the outpatient setting reduced costs while maintaining patient safety standards, according to an Iowa Orthopedic ...