Background Context Frailty is defined as a state of decreased reserve and susceptibility to
stressors. The relationship between frailty and postoperative outcomes after degenerative …

Acute and chronic pain following craniotomy is frequent and underrecognized. Several
surgical and patient risk factors predispose patients to pain following neurosurgery. Further …

… Gregory Dobson, MD • Lorraine Chow, MD • Alana Flexman, MD • Heather Hurdle, MD •
Matthew Kurrek, MD • Claude Laflamme, … Flexman, MD 4 H. Hurdle, MD 4 M. Kurrek, MD 4 C. …

Purpose The goal of this narrative review is to consider and categorize the clinically relevant
outcomes that have been previously investigated in neuroanesthesia and to propose the …

Purpose Although recruitment maneuvers have been advocated as part of a lung protective
ventilation strategy, their effects on cerebral physiology during elective neurosurgery are …

The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has several implications relevant to
neuroanesthesiologists, including neurological manifestations of the disease, impact of …

Rationale: Patients commonly use the Internet as a resource for health information; however,
no studies have evaluated the online information about idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). …

STUDY DESIGN: Systematic review. OBJECTIVES: To identify currently used measures of
frailty and sarcopenia in the adult spine surgery literature. To assess their ability to predict …

Background Context Sarcopenia measured by normalized total psoas area (NTPA) has been
shown to predict mortality and adverse events (AEs) in numerous surgical populations. The …

Background context Frailty and sarcopenia variably predict adverse events (AEs) in a number
of surgical populations. Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of frailty …