Endoscopic spine surgery offers a minimally invasive option for patients with less blood loss, quicker recovery times and fewer adverse outcomes.
Here are seven practices that have added the capability in the last year:
1. Mark Prevost II, MD, a surgeon at the Jasper-based Alabama Back Institute, became the third physician in the state to offer endoscopic spine surgery in September.
2. Louisville, Ky.-based UofL Health – Medical Center East became the first in the state to add Elliquence technology for endoscopic spine surgery.
3. Two OSF HealthCare hospitals — Peoria, Ill.-based OSF Saint Francis Medical Center and Bloomington, Ill.-based OSF Saint Joseph Medical Center — added endoscopic spine surgery.
4. Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush added endoscopic spine surgery in April.
5. Benjamin Burch, MD, became the first surgeon in Mississippi to perform an endoscopic spine procedure. Dr. Burch performed the debut case in December at Oxford (Miss.) Surgery Center.
6. John Shin, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon, performed New Jersey's first unilateral biportal endoscopic spine surgery at Jersey City Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility.