Kern Singh, MD, co-founder of the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute at Rush in Chicago, recently penned an article on the safety of outpatient spine surgery for Vertebral Columns, a publication of the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery.
The article responds to a USA Today and Kaiser Health News article highlighting the risk of cervical hematoma after outpatient spine surgery, among other potential complications after outpatient surgery. Here are five key points.
