Neurotrauma

Articles On The Topic

The Neurosurgeon in Sports Medicine
When Will a Clinical Trial for Traumatic Brain Injury Succeed?
Impact on Injury: Five Trends to Watch
The Simple Things
Neurotrauma and Emergency Care: Who Pays?
Neurotrauma in Neurosurgical Residency: How Do We Promote Optimism in the Face of Overwhelming Futility?
AANS at the Congress of South Africa
Neurosurgery Call: Challenges and Opportunities
Gray Matters: Bringing Polemic Issues with Inchoate Guidelines into Sharper Focus

Needing Repair

Michael Schulder, MD, FAANS | Departments | Editorial License

Some of you may fondly remember the mid-80s TV show “St. Elsewhere,” probably the first program to show the gritty underbelly of residency training with any semblance of realism. One of the main characters was …

The Neurosurgeon in Sports Medicine

Julian E. Bailes Jr., MD, FAANS | Features

While soccer is the most popular sport with over 200 million participants worldwide, other sports, particularly American football and ice hockey, have received much recent attention and have been singled out for their incidence of …

Point: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: A Real Disease, but Not a New One

Douglas C. Miller, MD, PhD | Features

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a term applied to a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative illness occurring in some individuals who have experienced repeated concussive or sub-concussive traumatic brain injuries (1-4). The term and the diagnosis have …

Counterpoint: The Pediatric Health Crisis is Not Concussions

Robert E. Harbaugh, MD, FAANS, FAHA | Features

Athletes, particularly those participating in contact sports, may be exposed to repeated blows to the head raising the concern that such exposure might lead to neurological dysfunction later in life. In the last few years, …

Neurotrauma in Neurosurgery

Frederick A. Boop, MD, FAANS | Inside Neurosurgeon | President's Perspective

This issue of AANS Neurosurgeon is devoted to the topic of neurotrauma. Having recently spent the better part of a weekend working online courses in order to fulfill my hospital’s mandatory 16 hours per year …

The Coming of MIPS

John K. Ratliff, MD, FAANS; Katie O. Orrico, JD | Features

2017 promises to see many changes in neurosurgical coding and quality reporting. New systems will impose fundamental shifts in a variety of Medicare reporting requirements. This article will provide a quick overview of changes in …

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Why Don't We Have a Cure for Spinal Cord Injury?

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Avoiding Tort Liability When There are Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

Calendar/Courses

Kranzler Chicago Review Course in Neurosurgery
Jan. 24-31, 2020; Chicago

46th Annual Richard Lende Winter Neurosurgery Conference
Jan. 31-Feb. 3, 2020; Snowbird, Utah

Third Annual Cedars Sinai Intracranial Hypotension Symposium
Feb. 8, 2020; Los Angeles

2020 Managing Coding and Reimbursement Challenges
Feb. 14-16, 2020; Las Vegas

13th Annual International Symposium on Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy and Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Feb. 21-23, 2020; Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

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