Spine

Spine surgery patients experience hospital readmissions for a variety of reasons: Surgical complications, nausea and vomiting, infections and pain management issues to name a few. Urinary retention and wound management also brings patients back to the emergency room a few…

Mark Souweidane, MD, has been named chair of the editorial board for The Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.

Cumberland Surgical Hospitals opened the Cumberland Surgical Hospital of San Antonio.

Spine in ASCs continues to grow with the January 2015 addition of nine spine codes to the ASC-payable list. Bolstering spine offerings in outpatient surgery centers could result in profitable businesses.

A VA Spinal Cord Injury Center in Waltham, Mass., has experienced positive results with the EarlySense Monitoring System.

Jeff Lehmen, MD, of SSM Health in St. Louis, became board certified, according to Lake News Online.

Here are nine things to know about spine in the ASC setting.

Here are eight spine surgeons and neurosurgeons in the news this past week.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles received a $2 million gift to support brain and spinal cord tumor research, according to a News-Medical report.

Spinal manipulation may relieve back pain for some people, researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada found, according to NewsmaxHealth. Spine published the study.