As many as 1 in 5 people have complications from ACDF surgery, but severe side effects are rare. Most people fully recover within 6–8 weeks, but some may need another surgery. Anterior cervical ...

Additionally, hospital patients consumed greater average doses of fentanyl and oxycodone. "This study demonstrates that patients undergoing same-day surgery for primary one- or two-level ACDF received ...

Patients undergoing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion who received an application of local steroid at the conclusion of the cervical plating had better patient-report outcomes for dysphagia than ...

The trend towards ambulatory surgery for procedures previously limited to the inpatient setting is well established. [6,7,8,9,10,11] Trends in spinal surgery towards less invasive approaches and ...