Neurosurgery

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OCT Imaging Needle Can Detect Blood Vessels in Neurosurgery

A miniaturized optical coherence tomography imaging needle can detect blood vessels intraoperatively in the human brain in vivo.

High-Frequency Oscillations Not a Good Predictor of Outcomes After Epilepsy Surgery

HFOs were predictors of good or poor surgical outcome in 69.2% of patients, resulting in a modest validation of the researchers’ hypothesis.

Mindfulness Training Acceptable Among Surgical Interns

Formal mindfulness-based stress reduction appears to be both feasible and acceptable to surgical interns.

Force Analysis May Aid in Determining Neurosurgeon Skill Level

Surgeon skill level may be differentiated by force-sensing bipolar forceps and force analysis.

Tinnitus Associated With Medial Temporal Lobe Surgery

There is an increased prevalence of tinnitus in patients undergoing medial temporal lobe surgery.

Number of Female Neurosurgeons On the Rise

The number of female neurosurgeons in academic leadership positions remains low.

Spine Surgery, Rehabilitation Registry Created to Track Outcomes

The AAPM&R and the AANS are coming together to track outcomes.

FDA Warns of Skull Clamp Slippage

Health care providers are encouraged to inspect the devices before and after use.

Brain Cooling Technique Helps Protect, Identify Speech Regions During Surgery

Focal cooling is a vast improvement over older brain-mapping techniques, which risked triggering epileptic seizures during surgery.

Frailty Increases Mortality Risk After Surgery in Older Adults

The risk for death 1 year after major surgery is significantly higher for frail patients.