Author: Staff

Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for Dec. 22, 2016.

Joint replacement specialist at Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush Denis Nam, MD, received an award at the 2016 Current Concepts in Joint Replacement meeting.

Vail (Colo.)-Summit Orthopaedics partnered with Universal Research Solutions for electronic patient data collection.

A study published in The Spine Journal examines the Timed Up and Go test for objective functional impairment in lumbar degenerative disc disease patients. 

A panel of spine surgeons and clinicians published an article in Spine titled "Best Practices for Outpatient Anterior Cervical Surgery" to outline the best practices for selecting patients and performing cervical total disc replacement and fusion procedures in the ASC.

The IBM Institute for Business Value and The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey of 200 healthcare executives in 16 countries, with a focus on blockchains in healthcare, according to healthcare informatics.

Rehovot, Israel-based Carevature Medical reported U.S. surgeons are experiencing positive outcomes using the company's Dreal Powered and Curved Spinal decompression system.

Gregory G. Gallant, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Rothman Institute, a Philadelphia-based physician group with office locations throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. His clinical interests include disorders of the hand, elbow and shoulder.

A study in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery investigated the functional and mental health outcomes of orthopedic trauma patients who underwent either lower-limb amputation or lower-limb salvage.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University and Germany-based Siemens Healthcare researchers created an algorithm to automatically label images of vertebrae during spine surgeries. The algorithm, "LevelCheck," pinpoints individual vertebrae in real time during spine surgery.