Background Reducing depth of anesthesia and anesthetic exposure may help prevent delirium,
but trials have been conflicting. Most studies were conducted under general anesthesia …

Spinal anesthesia is increasingly viewed as a reasonable alternative to general anesthesia
for lumbar spine surgery. However, the results of spinal anesthesia in elderly patients …

Background: The use of spinal anesthesia (SA) as opposed to general anesthesia (GA)
during elective lumbar spine surgery is an emerging technique and represents a potentially …

Background: Cervical spine trauma (CST) leads to devastating neurologic injuries. In a
cohort of CST patients from a major East Africa referral center, we sought to (a) describe …

Study Design: Retrospective cost-effectiveness analysis. Objectives: While the incidence of
traumatic spine injury (TSI) is high in low-middle income countries (LMICs), surgery is rarely …

Study design Retrospective, cohort study of a prospectively collected database. Objectives
In a cohort of patients with traumatic spine injury (TSI) in Tanzania who did not undergo …

Study design Retrospective, case-control study. Objectives In a traumatic spinal injury (TSI)
cohort from Tanzania, we sought to: (1) describe potential risk factors for pressure ulcer …

Spinal anesthesia for spine surgery is an emerging technique. Because of their lack of
physiologic reserve, elderly patients are an appealing population for this technique. Unfortunately…

Study Design Retrospective review of a prospectively collected database. Objective To
assess the incidence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) associated with single- versus multistage …

OBJECTIVE The burden of spinal trauma in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is
immense, and its management is made complex in such resource-restricted settings. …