Clinical Expert Advice Forums
Evidence based medicine and randomized prospective controlled trials are the basis of clinical medicine today. While we strongly rely on this evidence, the practicing surgeon frequently encounters clinical scenarios for which solutions from such trials are not possible.
The AO Spine Clinical Expert Advice Forums aims to fill that void, by documenting experts’ advice on different everyday clinical scenarios, from diagnosis, or management decisions, to intra-op events or post-operative complications.
This year’s working groups include the scenarios detailed below:
Past scenarios
Management of Intraoperative Vertebral Artery Lacerations
K. Daniel Riew (USA)
Jay S. Reidler (USA)
Edward Benzel (USA)
Atul Goel (India)
Luiz Vialle (Brazil)
Abumi Kuniyoshi (Japan)
Richard Assaker (France)
Yu Sun (China)
Jin Sup Yeom (Korea)
Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran (India)
May 4, 2020
Accidental tears in the dura mater that result in leakage of cerebral spinal fluid
Asdrubal Falavigna (Brazil)
André Castilho (Brazil)
Yoshiharo Kawaguchi (Japan)
Bastian Storzer (München)
Karsten Wiechert (München)
Nestor Taboada (Colombia)
Jason Ilias Liounakos (USA)
Michael Yung-Shun Wang (USA)
Avelino Parajón (Madrid)
Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran (India)
June 10, 2020
Pedicle screws that are dangerously positioned but asymptomatic
Manabu Ito (Japan)
Paresh Bang (India)
Emiliano Vialle (Brazil)
Ferran Pellise (Spain)
Steve Lewis (Canada)
David Polly (USA)
Jong-Beom Park (Korea)
Samir Dalvie (India)
July 3, 2020
L4–L5 instability with asymptomatic disc disease
Matteo Pejrona (Italy)
Pedro Berjano (Italy)
Ashish Diwan (Australia)
Emiliano Vialle (Brazil)
Claudio Lamartina (Italy)
November 27, 2020 (12:00 CET)
Best practices in intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring
Stephen Lewis (Canada)
Mike Grevitt (UK)
Kota Watanabe (Japan)
Oheneba Boachie-Adjei (Ghana)
André Luís Fernandes Andújar (Brazil)
Kenneth Cheung (Hong Kong)
Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran (India)
February 3, 2021 (13:00 CET)
The Management of Early Post-Operative Spinal Infection in the Presence of Implants, Interbody Cages, and Bone Grafting
Srikanth N. Divi (USA)
Kazuhiro Chiba (Japan)
F. Cumhur Oner (Netherlands)
Gregory M. Malham (Australia)
Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar (Iran)
Andrei F. Joaquim (Brazil)
Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran (India)
Alexander R. Vaccaro (USA)
April 17, 2021 (12:30 CET)