Publications by authors named "C R Kepler"
Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Objective: To determine hospital length of stay (LOS) and long-term opioid consumption among patients who received inpatient multimodal analgesia following lumbar spine surgery, as opposed to those who received opioids alone.
Summary Of Background Data: Opioids have long been the historical choice for managing postoperative pain.
Study Design: Retrospective cohort.
Objective: To analyze the annual trends in the most prevalent topics, journals, and geographic regions of the top 100 spine surgery articles, as determined by altmetric attention scores (AASs). We also describe the relationship between AAS and traditional article metrics.
Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Objective: To evaluate inpatient complication profiles of patients receiving neuromuscular blockade reversal via sugammadex versus neostigmine/glycopyrrolate.
Summary Of Background Data: Sugammadex is a neuromuscular blockade reversal agent that binds non-depolarizing muscle relaxants.
Article Synopsis
- A retrospective cohort study aimed to compare three socioeconomic status (SES) indexes and their association with outcomes after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) or lumbar fusion.
- The study involved identifying adult patients who underwent these surgeries at a medical center from 2014 to 2020, analyzing their preoperative conditions and outcomes based on SES classifications derived from community-level indexes.
- Results indicated that while patients from lower SES communities had worse preoperative outcomes, the community-wide SES indexes were ineffective in predicting surgical outcomes post-surgery.
Study Design: Retrospective cohort.
Objective: To explore the relationship between symptomatic pseudoarthrosis requiring revision after lumbar fusion and antidepressant use.
Summary Of Background Data: Approximately 25% of patients undergoing spine surgery are taking antidepressants.