Spine surgery database: a turkish registry for spinal disorders

Spine Tango in Turkish: Development of a Local Registry System.

AIM Successfully established registry systems, rather than personal efforts to collect data, are required to record, analyze, compare and secure patient related data. Unfortunately, our country does not have such patient registry systems for spinal pathologies and surgeries at this time. In order to fill this gap in patient management in Turkey, the authors adopted already established Spine Tan...

Spinal Anesthesia for Lower Level Spine Surgery

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) for Spine Surgery, a Review Article

 Despite surgical, medical, technological, and anesthetic improvements, Patients are faced with various consequences and complications after spine surgery. Accelerate Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs is a multimodal, multidisciplinary perioperative care approach that seeks to improve the quality of surgery, reduce complications, reduce the length of stay, and ultimately reduce costs. This...

New Horizons in Spinal Surgery: Spine Arthroplasty

Background: Degenerative primary osteoarthritis is one of the commonest causes of pain in peripheral joints. This is commonly seen in the knee and hip joints. Replacement of these worn out joints is now the established treatment, which gives stable pain free mobile joints. Arthrodesis or fusion of worn out joints is now rarely performed. Degeneration of the intervertebral disc is a common cause...

The future of spine surgery: New horizons in the treatment of spinal disorders

BACKGROUND AND METHODS As with any evolving surgical discipline, it is difficult to predict the future of the practice and science of spine surgery. In the last decade, there have been dramatic developments in both the techniques as well as the tools employed in the delivery of better outcomes to patients undergoing such surgery. In this article, we explore four specific areas in spine surgery:...