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Throughout Safety in Spine Surgery Month—April, 2024—we shared a variety of spine surgery safety resources, including downloadable Best Practice Guidelines and top talks from previous years. A partial listing of these resources is available below.
Best Practice Guidelines:
Video Presentations:
- Panel Discussion | Using Technology to Make ORs Safer (or at Least Different)—with Brandon Carlson, MD; Roger Härtl, MD; Lawrence Lenke, MD; and Zeeshan Sardar, MD
- What Have Study Groups Taught Us About Complication Mitigation and What Strategies Are Important?—Eric Klineberg, MD
- Panel Discussion | How Do You Advocate for Teams in the Setting of Pressured Healthcare System Economics?—with Rajiv Sethi, MD; Michael Vitale MD MPH; Lawrence Lenke, MD; Eric Klineberg, MD; Han Jo Kim, MD; and Dean Chou, MD
Ever-increasing safety in spine surgery is critical. Keep the conversation going! Continue to watch for exclusive content about spine surgery safety through this website and on your preferred social platforms.
S3P Social Links:
For a more in-depth study of safety best practices and innovations, join us in New York City at the Safety in Spine Surgery Summit on May 31, 2024. Read More >
Welcome to Safety in Spine Surgery Month 2024. Join us on social media throughout the month of April as we focus on spine surgery safety. We will share safety resources, including downloadable Best Practice Guidelines and top talks from previous years. Learn the latest techniques relevant to this critical topic from experts in the field.
Watch for exclusive content throughout the month of April on your preferred social platform.
S3P Social Links:
For a more in-depth study of safety best practices and innovations, join us in New York City at the Safety in Spine Surgery Summit on May 31, 2024. Read More >
Join an expert faculty for a fresh look at optimizing safety in spine surgery! We’ll explore new topics such as:
- How Can Enabling Technologies Improve Outcomes?
- Avoiding Complications with New Techniques
Plus, bring your whole care team for discussions on:
- Building and Maintaining an Expert OR Staff
- Collaborating with the Next Generation
Find out more details and register today!
Keynote Speaker: Nick Petrie
Author, researcher, and consultant Nick Petrie specializes in leadership development for senior executives and helping organizations build a healthy, high-performance culture. Co-Author of Work Without Stress, Nick believes that performance and excellence do not have to be synonymous with burnout. Born and raised in New Zealand, he has significant international experience living and working in Japan, Spain, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, and Dubai. Past clients include Google, NASA, Walmart, Deloitte, Red Bull, Kellogg’s, Workday, Qantas and Comcast.
Nick is a proud father to four sons, and a three-time cancer survivor. He and his wife recently returned to New Zealand to raise their family in his beautiful homeland.
Browse the Safety Summit brochure and more information >
We had some amazing videos sharing the message about safety in spine surgery, with both top-level commentary as well as practical tips. This week our daily safety tip videos were seen by over 11,000 people, and our overall audience grew by 40%. Highlights included:
- Dr. Lehman asked us, “Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than to have surgery?,” in his video on Safety By the Numbers.
- Prof Carl-Eric Aubin shared about the biomechanical considerations in assessing spinal instrumentation for safety.
- Vafa Jamali from Zimmer Biomet shared about their support of the Safety month.
- Dr. Hey shared about the importance of spine surgery checklists, including a link to the downloadable checklists he’s created.
- And finally, Dr. Elowitz explained the connections between communication, patient safety, and medical malpractice.
Several of these daily tip videos are taken from longer talks presented at past Safety in Spine Surgery Summits. Did you know we have a library of these talks that you can browse & watch for free? Visit the videos tab on our website, or start here with the 2020 Safety Summit videos.
We also had over 500 people register for the April 15 webinar Checklists & Guidelines Which Make Spine Surgery Safer, which featured 4 of our Award Winners for the Best New Methodologies and Techniques to Enhance Safety in Spine Surgery, as well as a “who’s who” of surgeon leaders representing spine safety efforts from leading societies including the SRS, AANS, and POSNA.
We want to thank this week’s contributors, as well as this week’s partner organizations: NewYork-Presbyterian, Medtronic, Zimmer Biomet, NeuroPoint Alliance, Hey Clinic, and CareGuard.
We want to hear from you, too! Post safety tips or questions on your own social media—tag us, and you might win a $100 gift card! Winners are drawn each week from all social media channels.
View all this week’s videos here.
View the videos from presenters at the 4th Annual Safety in Spine Surgery Summit. Learn insights and practical techniques for improvement of safety in spine surgery from experts in the medical field as well as other fields.
The Safety in Spine Surgery project was thrilled to have hosted the 3rd Annual Safety in Spine Surgery Summit on Friday, April 20, 2018 at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The event brought together a diverse audience of spine surgeons, OR directors and hospital executives from across the nation to network and learn about the numerous safety and quality advances that are being made in the field.
This year’s theme was “Toward New Rules of Engagement for an Increasingly Complex Spine World.” Dr. Michael Vitale (pictured in photo, right), chaired the event and was joined by the event’s co-chair Dr. Lawrence Lenke (pictured in photo, left).