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