Welcome
The Lumbar Spine Research Society presented the
10th Annual Instructional Course
Optimizing Surgical Outcomes: Literature Based Recommendations and Actual Surgeon Practices
on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 | 3PM – 7PM | SOFITEL Hotel | Chicago, IL
Course Chairs: Michael J. Lee, MD and Zorica Buser, PhD, MBA
CME Credit Information for On Demand Content
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the Lumbar Spine Research Society. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons designates this virtual, live activity for a maximum of 3.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Thank you to JNS for once again publishing the Annual Meeting Abstracts in their Online Journals!
VISIT: Journal of Neurosurgery Online Publications of LSRS 2022 Meeting Abstracts live now, in the April 2022 JNS: Spine issue
Completed evaluations are required to receive CME credit. More information regarding CME can be found below.
Directions on completing the evaluation:
You may go back to previous pages in the survey and update existing responses until the survey is finished or until you have exited.
If you exit the evaluation, you may return to complete, however, you will not be able to access your previous answers.
In order to return and complete you will need to continue the evaluation on the same device you used to begin it.
ON DEMAND CONTENT:
Module #1: Pre-operative conditioning
Survey Overview (Michael J. Lee, MD)
Session 1: Perioperative optimization of lumbar pathology: Why does it matter and what has to be done? (Andrew T. Dailey, MD)
Session 2: Patient education and engagement: need for multidisciplinary teams (Nicholas Spina, MD)
Session 3: Mental disorders and counseling – do we need to delay surgery? (Owoicho Adogwa, MD)
Session 4: Anemia and Nutrition as risk factors, is the correction necessary? (R. Kiran Alluri)
Discussion
Module #2: Post-operative Optimization
Session 1: ERAS Survey Overview & Bracing and When to start Physical Therapy after Lumbar Fusion (Jeremy Shaw, MD, MS)
Session 2: Post-operative early nutrition management (Raymond Hah, MD)
Session 3: Role of ERAS in hospital optimization and cost reduction (Sravisht Iyer, MD)
Module #3: Analgesic Optimization
Session 1: Weaning off patients from opioids prior to surgery (Adam Bruggeman, MD)
Session 2: Opioid management after surgery: how long to go? (Andrew Pugley, MD)
Session 3: Debate: NSAIDS after lumbar fusion
Speaker 1: Don’t be afraid of NSAIDs after spine fusion! (Zoher Ghogawala, MD)
Speaker 2: Never NSAIDs after fusion: who wants a nonunion? (Gregory Schroeder, MD)
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