(SPEC5) Special Course 5: Spine Summit Grand Rounds: Difficult Cases - The Decision-Making Dilemma

Saturday, March 18, 2023

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM EST

Course Director(s)

Eve Tsai, MD, PhD

Professor
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON, CA

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
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Christopher Maulucci, MD (he/him/his)

Associate professor
Tulane university
New Orleans, Louisiana

Disclosure(s): No relevant disclosure to display

Learning Objectives:

Discuss a variety of decision-making approaches in the complex case
Demonstrate complication management techniques in cervical and lumbar operations
Discuss complication avoidance strategies for management of complex lumbar and cervical conditions

This course with a focus on Spine Section member participation. Spine Section members are encourage to submit their cases through the Spine Section portal. Intended for audience members to bring difficult cases they have managed or are currently managing.

Disclosure(s):

Eve Tsai, MD, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Christopher Maulucci, MD: No relevant disclosure to display

Presentations:

2:30 PM – 2:32 PM EST

Introduction
2:32 PM – 2:40 PM EST

Cervical Deformity Case
Speaker: Tyler Koski, MD – Northwestern Medicine
2:41 PM – 2:49 PM EST

Difficult Osteomyelitis Case
Speaker: Rod J. Oskouian, MD, n/a – Swedish Neuroscience Institute
2:50 PM – 2:58 PM EST

Challenging TL Trauma Case
Speaker: Daniel Cavanaugh, MD – University of Maryland
2:59 PM – 3:11 PM EST

Question & Answer Session
3:12 PM – 3:20 PM EST

The Dumbell Schwannoma: Technical Pearls
Speaker: Ashok Asthagiri, MD – University of Virginia
3:21 PM – 3:29 PM EST

Atlanto-Occipital Dislocation Case
Speaker: Sanjay S. Dhall, MD – Harbor UCLA Medical Center
3:30 PM – 3:38 PM EST

Persistent CSF Leak Case, and Pathway to Its Solution
Speaker: Asdrubal Falavigna, MD – University
3:39 PM – 3:47 PM EST

Hangman's Fracture Case
Speaker: Camilo A. Molina, MD (he/him/his) – Washington University
3:48 PM – 3:52 PM EST

Question & Answer Session
3:53 PM – 4:01 PM EST

Difficult TL Deformity Case
Speaker: Harry Mushlin, MD – Department of Neurological Surgery, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
4:02 PM – 4:10 PM EST

Lumbar ALIF Revision Case
Speaker: Steven Ludwig, MD – University of Maryland Medical Center
4:11 PM – 4:19 PM EST

Spondyloptosis Case
Speaker: Cheerag Upadhyaya, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina
4:20 PM – 4:28 PM EST

Vertebral Column Resection Case
Speaker: Julius O. Ebinu, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS, FAANS – University of California, Davis
4:29 PM – 4:37 PM EST

Cervical Fracture Dislocation
Speaker: Won Hyung Andrew Ryu, MD, MSc, MTM, FRCSC (he/him/his) – Oregon Health & Science University
4:38 PM – 4:40 PM EST

Question & Answer Session
4:40 PM – 5:00 PM EST

Submitted Cases Discussion