ArticleWorld neurosurgery: X2023
Outpatient minimally invasive spine surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic - A retrospective analysis of 164 consecutive cases.
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Objective: To share our surgical experiences of minimally invasive cervical and lumbar procedures for patients who suffered from non-fatal motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) in the ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Methods: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF), minimally invasive laminotomy and discectomy (MILD), percutaneous endoscopic laser-assisted discectomy (PELD) and percutaneous kyphoplasty (PK) were performed on carefully selected patients. Results: From January 2020 to December 2021, our group performed 164 cases on 153 patients involving 249 intervertebral disc (IVD) levels. Of these, 116 cases (70.73%) on 114 patients (74.51%) were cervical, 48 cases (29.27%) were lumbar (including 8 PK cases). Eight patients had both cervical and lumbar procedures in a single anesthetic session (SAS) and were discharged on the same day. One hundred and six ACDF cases (92.17%) were at the C4-C5 and C5-C6 levels, which comprised of 146 (76.04%) IVDs. Of the 40 non-PK lumbar cases, 38 (95.0%) were at L4 to S1 lumbar levels. Six of these cases (15.0%) involved 2 lumbar levels. In contrast, 6 out of 8 kyphoplasties (75.0%) involved lower thoracic/higher lumbar vertebral columns (T11 to L2) and 2 were at the lower lumbar L4 level. Conclusions: We successfully and safely performed various cervical and lumbar spine surgeries in the ASCs amid COVID-19 pandemic and all patients achieved the same-day discharge (SDD). In the non-fatal MVAs, mid-lower cervical (C4 to C6) and lower lumbar (L4 to S1) IVDs were the most affected levels.
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