The Safety in Spine Surgery Project (S3P) is pleased to announce the 10 winners of the Safety in Spine Surgery Month Call for Abstracts / Call for Projects.

These award winners will present their work during our two live webinars in April.

April 14 Webinar | Best Practice Guidelines & Checklists to Make Your OR Safer
  • Artificial Neural Network Model for Prediction of Perioperative Blood Transfusion in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery
    Rafael De la Garza Ramos, MD
    Montefiore Medical Center
  • Formulation of a Web-based Spine Surgery Checklist
    Arvind G. Kulkarni, MD
    Mumbai Spine Scoliosis & Disc Replacement Centre
  • Post-operative Steroids in Patients with Severe Neuromuscular Scoliosis Undergoing Posterior Spinal Fusion Reduced Opioid Usage by 70%
    Nicholas Fletcher, MD
    Children's Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory University
  • Starting Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) from Scratch at an Academic Institution Spine Program
    Luke Harris
    University of South Alabama
  • Best Practice Consensus Guidelines for Diagnosing, Treating, and Preventing Surgical Site Infections in High-risk Scoliosis
    Paul Sponseller, MD
    Johns Hopkins Medicine
April 21 Webinar | Robotics & Navigation in Spine Surgery: Views Across Generations of Spine Surgeons
  • A Radiographic Comparison of Spinal Navigation and Freehand Techniques in Thoracolumbar Pedicle Screw Insertion
    Mohammed Munim
    Midwest Orthopaedics at RUSH, Rush University Medical Center
  • Augmented Reality to Increase Safety in Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Total Navigation
    Fabian Sommer, MD
    Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian
  • Novel 2D Long Film Imaging Utility to Avoid Wrong Level Spinal Surgery
    Rajiv Dharnipragada, BA
    University of Minnesota
  • Safety and Feasibility of Augmented Reality-assisted Resection of Benign Intradural Extramedullary Tumors
    Fabian Sommer, MD
    Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian
  • The Adjunct Use of Descending Neurogenic-evoked Potentials When Transcranial Motor-Evoked Potentials Degrade into Warning Criteria: Minimizing False-Positive Events
    Scott J. Luhmann, MD
    Washington University

Save the date for the 5th Annual Safety in Spine Surgery Summit: April 13, 2020 in New York City.

Friday, March 13, 2020
Location: The Heart Conference Center / New York-Presbyterian Hospital, 173 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, NY 10032

Chair:

  • Michael G. Vitale, MD, MPH

Co-chairs:

  • John M. Flynn, MD
  • Roger Härtl, MD
  • Rajiv K. Sethi, MD

An ESSENTIAL program for:

  • Spine surgeons
  • Surgical spine team members
  • Hospital execs responsible for patient safety

Registration details will be posted on the Event’s Page.

Hear what leaders in the spine industry have to say about the Safety in Spine Surgery Summit.

Michael Vitale, MD, MPH, Chief of Pediatric Orthopedics and Pediatric Spine Surgery at the Columbia University Medical Center, shares the motivation behind the S3P meeting. In addition, Drs. Sethi and Lenke explain what makes the Summit so unique. Learn why it is an essential meeting for spine surgeons, surgical spine team members, hospital execs responsible for patient safety, and more. Watch the video below.

"This meeting is the most valuable for any practicing surgeon." —Rajiv Sethi, MD

"You'll provide better service to your patients." —Lawrence Lenke, MD