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Human Studies


2020 May 18


Anesthesiology

Enhanced Recovery after Lumbar Spine Fusion: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Quality of Patient Recovery.

Authors

Soffin EM, Beckman JD, Tseng A, Zhong H, Huang RC, Urban M, Guheen CR, Kim H-J, Cammisa FP, Nejim JA, Schwab FJ, Armendi IF, Memtsoudis SG
Anesthesiology. 2020 May 18.
PMID: 32433277.

Abstract

Prospective trials of enhanced recovery after spine surgery are lacking. We tested the hypothesis that an enhanced recovery pathway improves quality of recovery after one- to two-level lumbar fusion.