Full-endoscopic transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion is a feasible stabilization technique in an ambulatory surgical center, according to a study in the Pain Physician Journal.
The researchers evaluated blood loss, operative time, post-anesthesia care unit time and Visual Analog Scale of 85 patients who underwent FE-TLIF between 2011 and 2015 and were followed up for 12 months.
Three things to know:
1. No intraoperative complications were observed. There were two cases of postoperative sympathetically mediated pain and three reoperations.
2. OR time for patients with 2-level fusion was 110 minutes longer than for those with one-level operation.
3. Body mass index and age did not affect OR time, and sex and age did not affect post-anesthesia care unit time.