Announcing the 2022 Best New Methodologies and Techniques to Enhance Safety in Spine Surgery Awards!

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

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

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