[HTML][HTML] Spine Surgery in the Chilean Public Health System

Á Dowling, KU Lewandrowski - International Journal of Spine …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chile is a country with an area of 756,102 km2. 1 It spans a distance of 4270 km (2653
miles) of coastline from north to south, which creates problems in delivering sophisticated …

Spine surgery in Atlantic Canada in the COVID-19 era: lessons learned so far

A El Helou - The Spine Journal, 2020 - thespinejournalonline.com
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a widely spreading infectious disease, initially reported
in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a …

[HTML][HTML] Spinal Disease Burden and Priorities of Community Spine Care in the Brazilian Public Health System vs the United States

HLA Defino, KU Lewandrowski - International Journal of Spine …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Brazil is the largest country in South America. It is more than 8,515,767 km² (3,287,086 mi²)
and is the world's fifth largest country. With a population of over 214 million, it is also the …

[HTML][HTML] Global French spine surgery activity: executive report of demographics data and trends

R Chapon, J Meyblum, L Simon, Y Pelletier… - 2022 - europepmc.org
Background: To date, there is no demographic study of spinal surgery in France. We
analyzed the French trend of spinal surgery as well as the variations in incidence according …

The Saudi Spine Society guidelines on spinal surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Alturkistany, FH Abduljabbar, F Alhelal… - Journal of Orthopaedic …, 2020 - Springer
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus disease
(COVID-19), which emerged in China at the end of 2019, a pandemic. By mid-April, severe …

[HTML][HTML] [Translated article] Impact of COVID-19 pandemia on spine surgery in 2nd level hospital

PS Florensa, JG Sanchez, AG Torrano… - Revista espanola de …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction The consequences of COVID-19 pandemic, like in any other field of medicine,
had such a massive effect in the activity of spine surgeons. Objectives The main purpose of …

[HTML][HTML] The Aging Spine: China Facing Up to the Global Challenge

J Zou, H Yang - International Journal of Spine Surgery, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The world is experiencing a shift in population distribution toward older ages, known as
aging. Globally, there were 703 million persons aged 65 or over in 2019. 1 This figure will be …

Let's Put AI to Really Good Use!

JR Chapman, J Wang, K Wiechert - Global Spine Journal, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Let's start with a new form of (not yet required) disclosure: this Editorial has not been written
with any help or assistance of Chat GPT or any other form of Artificial Intelligence based …

Health impact and economic analysis of NGO-supported neurosurgery in Bolivia

JD Ament, KR Greene, I Flores, F Capobianco… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2014 - thejns.org
Object Bolivia, one of the poorest countries in the world, ranks 108th on the 2013 Human
Development Index. With approximately 1 neurosurgeon per 200,000 people, access to …

The global spine community and COVID-19: Divided or United?

PK Louie, GK Harada, MH McCarthy, TJ Albert, HS An… - Spine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Since the initial documented cases from Wuhan, China in December of 2019, the outbreak
of COVID-19 has spread to more than 210 countries, infecting greater than 2,500,000 …