Spine

Here are five spine and neurosurgeons making headlines.

A New Mexico bankruptcy judge ordered Quorum Health Resources of Tennessee to pay an Alamogordo, N.M.-based Gerald Champion Regional Hospital patient $2.3 million after a failed bone cement spinal procedure, according to the Albuquerque Journal.

The only neurosurgeon on the island, Maui (Hawaii) Memorial Medical Center's Thomas Rogers, MD, has been unable to treat patients for the past few months due to health concerns, Maui News reports.

Researchers from St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine and New York City-based Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons examined health-related quality of life measures for complex spinal reconstructive surgery patients.

Here are seven recent stories on outpatient spine trends and news articles.

  Here are the 10 most-read articles featured on Becker's Spine Review between Feb. 5 and Feb. 9.

The North American Spine Society opened a 30-day comment period on coverage recommendations for lumbar interspinous devices without fusion and decompression Feb. 8. You can find a draft of the proposed coverage policy recommendations here.

Both burnout rates and career satisfaction are high among neurosurgery residents, a national survey in the Journal of Neurosurgery found.

Four spine surgeons discuss the advantages and disadvantages to using robotic image guidance during procedures.

Investigators at the New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery developed the first patient questionnaire to measure the physical and psychological impact of brachial plexus injury and assess surgical outcomes.