Spine Surgery and Postoperative Management
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Orthopedics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 352
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Modern spine surgery increasingly depends on optimized perioperative management to improve patient outcomes, reduce complications, and enhance recovery. This Special Issue focuses on the integration of surgical technique with evidence-based perioperative care across the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of spine surgery. Areas of interest include patient optimization and risk stratification, anesthesia and neuromonitoring strategies, blood loss mitigation, infection prevention, multimodal and opioid-sparing analgesia, enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathways, postoperative mobilization, and strategies to improve patient-reported outcomes. Emphasis is placed on clinical trials, registry-based studies, and pragmatic perioperative protocols applicable to both degenerative and complex spinal pathology. By highlighting multidisciplinary collaboration among surgeons, anesthesiologists, and perioperative teams, this Special Issue aims to advance best practices that improve safety, efficiency, and value throughout the perioperative spine care continuum.
Dr. Mitchell K. Ng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- spine surgery
- perioperative care
- enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS)
- multimodal analgesia
- opioid-sparing strategies
- neuromonitoring
- perioperative optimization
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