Spine

  Here are five spine surgeons and spine surgery centers recently involved in charitable activities.

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons released a position statement on team-based care in neurosurgery.

In a prospective, double-blind, randomized control trial, researchers examined the postoperative pain and long term functional outcomes for spine surgery patients who received gabapentin and pregabalin and published the results in Spine.

Physician staffing firm Jackson & Coker recently released a physician salary calculator, which provides hospital administrators and medical group managers with estimates of the fair market values of various physician compensation rates, as well as the revenue contributed by those…

Benvenue Medical announced the full commercial launch of the Kiva VCF Treatment System at the Society for Interventional Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego.

Nevada Neurosciences Institute at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas has added Kelly Schmidt, MD, according to a Vegas Inc. report.

InvisionHealth's Brain and Spine Center in Williamsville, N.Y., announced the addition of Tobias A. Mattei, MD, in spring 2014.

An article published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine compares surgical and non-surgical treatment of unilateral, nondisplaced, subaxial cervical spine facet fractures without evidence of spinal cord injury.

  Over the past decade, the allogeneic blood transfusion rate increased, whereas the predonated autologous blood transfusion rate decreased in patients who underwent spinal fusion in U.S. hospitals, according to a new study in Spine.

One of the fastest-growing fields in spine is minimally invasive surgery. Historically, spine operations involved big incisions for open procedures with more blood loss, pain and higher risk of infection than the less invasive procedures today.