Author: Alan Condon

Enhanced recovery after surgery is a multimodal, evidence-based perioperative care pathway designed to improve recovery for patients undergoing major surgery. ERAS elements address factors that have historically extended a patient's hospital stay, including the need for parenteral analgesia and intravenous…

Awake spine surgery is an approach to procedures that uses a local anesthetic to let surgeons examine a patient's neurologic condition during surgery, rather than general anesthesia, which involves intubation.

Kingsley Abode-Iyamah, MD, performed one of the first robotic-assisted awake spinal fusions in Florida in February, the surgeon announced in a Feb. 25 LinkedIn post.

Orthofix posted $464.5 million in 2021 net sales, up 14 percent compared with 2020, and aims to continue its growth trajectory over the next couple of years.

The National Institutes of Health awarded more than $191 million in neurosurgery funding to 54 universities in 2021, according to data from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.

NuVasive's Pulse integrated spine surgery system launched in summer 2021, with the first commercial cases performed in July in Ohio and Texas.

CMS and commercial payers are trending toward bundled payments as the healthcare industry shifts from fee for service toward value-based care, while the notion of a single-payer system continues to be tossed around but is unlikely to become a reality…

A jury on Feb. 22 awarded $35 million to the family of a man who died hours after undergoing orthopedic surgery at Springhill Medical Center in Mobile, Ala., more than seven years ago.

Amid TikTok dances, Twitter memes and Instagram selfies, spine and orthopedic surgeons are carving out their own spaces in social media.

Creating efficiencies and foraging partnerships with physicians could help hospitals slow outpatient migration, two orthopedic surgeons told Becker's.