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Reinventing the wheel in scoliosis surgery: effective strategies for safely improving efficiency

Author(s) -

Jonathan Bourget-Murray,

Fábio Ferri-de-Barros

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.019317

Subject(s) - medicine , idiopathic scoliosis , scoliosis , traction (geology) , spinal fusion , surgery , geomorphology , geology

Posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion (PSIF) has been the standard operative treatment for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) and is one of the most frequently performed elective pediatric surgeries in North America, incurring an expenditure of more than $1.1 billion annually in the United States alone. This commentary reflects on the outcomes of systematically implementing intraoperative skull femoral traction (IOSFT) combined with navigated sequential drilling (NSD) during PSIF for AIS as strategies for quality improvement at our tertiary children’s hospital.

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