The current CDC National Healthcare Safety Network method of calculating rates of surgical site infection, or SSI, underestimates the SSI rate in procedures like laminectomies and rectal surgeries ...

Procedures include single- and multi-level lumbar laminectomies, single- and multi-level anterior cervical discectomies and fusions and single-level spinal cord decompression. The surgery center ...

The ASC has offered spine procedures since 1993. “We have done laminectomies since this time as well as pain procedures and we are evaluating at the present ACDFs,” says Julie C. Saucier, RN, ...