Through our new technologies research, we evaluate the comparative effectiveness of novel surgical technologies in real-time by continuously collecting peri-operative and out-patient outcome data as new technologies are employed into clinical practice. Select new technologies projects include:
- Minimally invasive direct lateral inter-body fusion versus posterior decompression and fusion for adjacent segment disease: Comparison of blood loss, length of hospital stay, and peri-operative morbidity.
- Percutaneous pedicle screw fixation for traumatic thoraco-lumbar compression fractures: Extent and time course of pain relief.
- Minimally invasive versus open vertebrectomy for spinal metastasis: Evaluation of morbidity and short-term quality of life.
Images of direct lateral and tubular vertebrectomy