Spine

Healthcare innovation and delivery in the United States is designed to meet rigorous quality standards while promoting cutting-edge technology for better outcomes. However, this care isn't always the most economically effective or scalable in all situations.

AO North America named Jack Lewin, MD, keynote speaker at the One AO Meeting.

Surgical site infections are serious complications and have a 6 percent to 24 percent prevalence rate among patients who undergo posterior spinal fusion for neuromuscular scoliosis, according to an article in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

AO North America named Robert A. McGuire Jr., MD, president-elect, according to a Mississippi Business Journal report.

A new study published in The Spine Journal examines whether cervical spine clearance protocols in California are effective at trauma centers.

Is the freehand lateral mass screw fixation in the subaxial cervical spine safe?

Plano-based Texas Institute of Spine and Neurosurgery announced that D Magazine has again named neurosurgeon Brent Morgan, MD, the best in Dallas for the ninth year running.

Are current cost-utility analysis studies effective in the United States for spine surgery?

A study published in The Spine Journal examines anterior lumbar interbody fusion using a new pedicle-to-pedicle technique.

Here are 10 spine surgeons and specialists who were in the news this past week.