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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Guiroy, Alfredo José
• Duarte, Matias Pereira
• Cabrera, Juan Pablo
• Coombes, Nicolás
• Gagliardi, Martin
• Gotfryd, Alberto
• Carazzo, Charles
• Taboada, Nestor
• Falavigna, Asdrubal

Titel

Neurosurgery versus orthopedic surgery: Who has better access to minimally invasive spinal technology?

Ist Teil von

• Surgical neurology international, 2020-11, Vol.11, p.385, Article 385

Ort / Verlag

USA: Scientific Scholar

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Background: Our aim was to evaluate differences in neurosurgeons versus orthopedists access to technologies needed to perform minimally invasive spine surgeries (MISS) in Latin America. Methods: We sent a survey to members of AO Spine Latin America (January 2020), and assessed the following variables; nationality, level of hospital (primary, secondary, and tertiary), number of spinal operations performed per year, spinal pathologies addressed, the number of minimally invasive spine operations performed/year, and differences in access to MISS spinal technology between neurosurgeons and orthopedists. Results: Responses were returned from 306 (25.6) members of AO Spine Latin America representing 20 different countries; 57.8% of respondents were orthopedic surgeons and 42.4% had over 10 years of experience. Although both specialties reported a lack of access to most of the technologies, the main difference between the two was greater utilization/access of neurosurgeons to operating microscope (e.g., 84% of the neurosurgeons vs. 39% of orthopedic spine surgeons). Conclusion: Although both specialties have limited access to MISS spinal technologies, orthopedic spine surgeons reported significantly lower access to operating microscopes versus neurosurgeons ( P < 0.01).