Postanesthesia Care Unit Imaging Is Unnecessary When Intraoperative Imaging Is Used During Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion Procedures
Bohl DD, Telles CJ, Hustedt JW, Blizzard DJ, Carlson EJ, Grauer JN. Postanesthesia Care Unit Imaging Is Unnecessary When Intraoperative Imaging Is Used During Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion Procedures. Clinical Spine Surgery A Spine Publication 2012, 25: e174-e177. PMID: 22622479, DOI: 10.1097/bsd.0b013e31825d99f6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPostanesthesia care unitAnterior cervical decompressionACDF proceduresClinical utilityCervical decompressionSurgical constructRetrospective case seriesLow clinical utilityFusion proceduresPlate/screw constructsOperative levelIncremental clinical utilityCare unitCase seriesBACKGROUND DATAScrew constructsIntraoperative imagingRadiation exposureSet of imagingAdequacy of imagesLateral viewDecompressionIntraoperative imagesImagingPlacement