Scoliosis

Since the 1950s when the term artificial intelligence was coined, its application and use has increased through rapid technological advances and has found their way into the health care sector, including orthopedics.

For the upcoming Congress in Vienna, the main theme of harmonization and diversity allows EFORT to actively promote its mission of improving patient care. Indeed, with 41 National Member Societies, EFORT is a truly diverse organization.

NEW ORLEANS — Results presented at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition showed use of intrawound vancomycin powder and betadine irrigation at the end of posterior spinal fusion significantly lowered the surgical site infection rate in patients with idiopathic scoliosis.

CHICAGO — Patients with adult symptomatic lumbar scoliosis experienced a high non-thoracolumbar orthopedic disease burden requiring surgery within 4 years, according to results presented at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting.

EFORT has featured at every annual meeting for the past 5 years a specific congress main theme that has always aligned with the EFORT mission of improving patient care. This selected overarching topic is broadly reflected in the scientific program for the meeting and is used as the driving statement for the core discussions in all the planned sessions and scientific exchanges onsite. For the upcoming 2020 edition of the Congress in Vienna, EFORT will highlight harmonization and diversity in the orthopaedic and traumatology practice as the congress main theme.

CHICAGO — An appropriate use criteria study presented at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting showed decompression without fusion was inappropriate for most cases of degenerative scoliosis and stenosis.

CHICAGO — Cobb angle measurement and radiographic follow-up after curve correction could be reliably performed in patients with early onset idiopathic scoliosis using a low-dose radiographic system, according to results of a prospective data collection study presented at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting, here.

Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. announced it has received FDA approval for The Tether, the first spinal tether device intended for use in children and adolescents to correct idiopathic scoliosis that has not responded to conservative treatment.