Scots football star called cops on ‘butcher’ surgeon who performed career-ending op on his spine

FORMER footballer Iain Jenkins called in police after realising a disgraced doctor was responsible for a botched operation on ...
Becker's ASC

Five Reasons Neurosurgery’s Future Belongs in the ASC

Neurosurgery is following a familiar path: just as orthopedics and cardiology moved key procedures to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), spine and neurovascular surgeons now have the technology and ...
Becker's ASC

Seven High-Value Neurosurgical Procedures Ready to Move Outpatient

Elective neurosurgery has quietly crossed a threshold: advances in minimally invasive techniques, anesthesia, and perioperative care have made a set of historically “inpatient” spine and neurovascular ...
BMJ Case Reports

Operative management of an extensive spinal epidural abscess

Spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is a serious infection of the central nervous system that typically presents with midline back pain, fever and neurological deficits. We report a rare case of an ...