Spine Registries
Summary of Key Points • Understand the history and driving forces behind the development of patient registries, including policy changes and limitations in existing health research. • Evaluate spine registries…
NEUROSURGERY
Big Data in Health Care
Summary of Key Points • Big data analytics refers to a collection of tools that will analyze large volumes of data and allow for predictions based on those analytics to…
Computational Modeling of the Spine
Summary of Key Points • The reduced costs and time, and the ability to simulate sophisticated loading conditions and vary certain parameters (such as treatment strategies) in a perfectly controlled…
Intraoperative Monitoring in Routine and Complex Surgery
Summary of Key Points • Intraoperative monitoring in spine surgery is a surrogate for a neurologic examination in the anesthetized patient. Modalities employed include somatosensory evoked potentials, motor evoked potentials,…
Bone Void Fillers: Bone and Bone Substitutes
Summary of Key Points • Bone grafting is a common procedure worldwide. Both autograft and allograft are safe and effective for use in patients. Autograft is the gold standard to…
Osteointegration (Osseointegration)
Summary of Key Points • The term osteointegration has been used in both structural (morphologic) and functional (physiologic) senses. • Titanium implants generally have a better biocompatibility and osteoconductivity than…
Biologics in Spine Fusion Surgery
Summary of Key Points • Spinal biologics can alter the existing biologic environment to enhance specific cellular/molecular activity in order to further a clinical goal by facilitating osteoinduction, osteoconduction, and/or…
Spine Fusion: Anatomy and Biomechanics of Bone-Bone Interface
Summary of Key Points • Mechanical performance of a bone graft is a function of the intrinsic property of the graft and the properties of the graft-host interface. • Bone…
Intervertebral Disc Process of Degeneration: Physiology and Pathophysiology
Summary of Key Points • Intervertebral disc degeneration is very common and is associated with significant costs to the American health care system. • Normal aging and degeneration of the…
Bone Modeling and Remodeling
Summary of Key Points • In general, modeling alludes to bone turnover that alters the shape of the bone, whereas remodeling is the turnover that recycles bone without changing its…
