Degeneration Similar With, Without Disc Prosthesis Surgery Patients undergoing inpatient lumbar discectomy have significantly higher overall complication rates than those treated as outpatients.

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(HealthDay)—Patients aged 65 years or older have a higher likelihood of complications when undergoing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), compared to younger patients, according to ...

Several studies published in the last decade examine the safety and efficacy of spine surgery in the outpatient ASC. Pugley et al. used the American College of Surgeons National Quality Improvement ...

The trend towards ambulatory surgery for procedures previously limited to the inpatient setting is well established. [6,7,8,9,10,11] Trends in spinal surgery towards less invasive approaches and ...

Surgery to remove multiple herniated or degenerated discs in the neck, a procedure known as anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), can be safely performed in an outpatient setting in select ...

A new study published in Clinical Spine Surgery compares outpatient single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion to inpatient cases. Study authors examined data from the Nationwide Surgical ...

Background: Spinal surgery is increasingly being done in the outpatient setting. We reviewed our experience with inpatient and outpatient single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with ...