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Patient Positioning in Spine Surgery: What Spine Surgeons Should Know? Open

Bhavuk Garg, Tungish Bansal, Nishank Mehta, Alok D. Sharan · 2023

Spine surgery has advanced tremendously over the last decade. The number of spine surgeries performed each year has also been increasing constantly. Unfortunately, the reporting of position-related complications in spine surgery has also b…

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol in spine surgery Open

Tungish Bansal, Alok D. Sharan, Bhavuk Garg · 2022

Perioperative outcomes of general versus spinal anesthesia in the lumbar spine surgery population: A systematic review and meta-analysis of data from 2005 through 2021 Open

David Urick, Brandon M. Sciavolino, Timothy Y Wang, Dhanesh K. Gupta, Alok D. Sharan , et al. · 2022

How to start an awake spine program: Protocol and illustrative cases Open

Romaric Waguia, Elisabeth Kakmou Touko, David Sykes, Margot Kelly-Hedrick, Fady Y. Hijji , et al. · 2022

Moving From KOLs to DOLs - the changing influence of healthcare providers Open

Alok D. Sharan, Vinod Dasa, David Flickinger, Scott Bullock, J. David Martin · 2022

The increasing use of digital social media networks has changed the influence of health care providers. Key Opinion Leaders are individuals who came from academic institutions who would often maintain influence through publications or podi…

Study of a bi-axial (KTP) crystal using Double Stokes Mueller Polarimetry Open

Chitra Shaji, Sruthil Lal S. B, Alok D. Sharan · 2021

We report the significance of the double Stokes Mueller polarimetry (DSMP) technique, to characterize a large size (3 X 3 X 5mm) KTP (Potassium titanyl phosphate) crystal. The crystal undergoes second harmonic generation with type II phase…

Comparative outcome analysis of spinal anesthesia versus general anesthesia in lumbar fusion surgery Open

Richard Sekerak, Evan Mostafa, Matthew Morris, Adam Nessim, Anjali Vira , et al. · 2020

Defining Value in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Understanding Strategy and Competition in Healthcare Open

Alok D. Sharan · 2020

The Value 1.0 era was marked as the period in which delivering value to the patient became the aspirational goal of healthcare systems. During this period there was tremendous research devoted to defining value and more importantly, determ…

The Science of Leadership Open

Alok D. Sharan · 2020

Increasingly orthopedic surgeons are being called upon to take leadership roles in hospitals and health care systems during the Covid pandemic. Surgeons have an intrinsic understanding of leadership due to their role in the operating rooms…

Awake spinal fusion Open

Bhavuk Garg, Kaustubh Ahuja, Alok D. Sharan · 2020

The Experience Economy Open

Alok D. Sharan · 2020

The healthcare system is going through a natural evolution. Similar to the automobile or the airplane industry, healthcare providers are understanding the value of delivering a memorable experience to patients. Understanding the elements o…

The Prevalence of Asymptomatic Cervical and Lumbar Facet Arthropathy: A Computed Tomography Study Open

Jung Hwan Kim, Alok D. Sharan, Woojin Cho, Mohammed Emam, Michael D. Hagen , et al. · 2019

Arthritic changes to the cervical and lumbar facet joints are prevalent among patients, and in some cases are asymptomatic. These findings were more common in older patients and at lower spinal levels.

An Analysis of the Cost-Effectiveness of Spinal Versus General Anesthesia for Lumbar Spine Surgery in Various Hospital Settings Open

Matthew Morris, Jonathan Morris, Camari Wallace, Woojin Cho, Alok D. Sharan , et al. · 2018

Study Design: Retrospective chart review. Objective: To determine the relative cost-effectiveness of spinal anesthesia and general anesthesia for lumbar laminectomy and microdiscectomy surgery performed in an academic versus private practi…

Non-surgical management of acute osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture: A review Open

Bhavuk Garg, Vivek Dixit, Sahil Batra, Rajesh Malhotra, Alok D. Sharan · 2017

Spatial self-phase modulation in the H2TPP(OH)4 doped in Boric Acid\n Glass Open

A. Srinivasa Rao, Mudasir H. Dar, N Venkatramaiah, R Venkatesan, Alok D. Sharan · 2015

Self-diffraction rings or spatial self-phase modulation (SSPM) was observed\nin tetra-phenyl porphyrin derivative 5,10,15,20 - meso-tetrakis\n(4-hydroxyphenyl) porphyrin (H2TPP(OH)4) doped in boric acid glass (BAG) at 671\nnm excitation wa…

Minimally Invasive Stereotactic Separation Surgery for Resection of Metastatic Spine Lesion: A Feasibility Study Open

Rani Nasser, Reza Yassari, Alok D. Sharan · 2015

Introduction The current treatment of spinal metastasis consists of algorithms combining reconstructive surgical and radiation modalities. Recently, the concept of separation surgery followed by adjuvant stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) was…

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