Gender Disparities in Outpatient Management of Postlaminectomy Syndrome.

Introduction: Postlaminectomy syndrome (PLS), also known as failed back surgery syndrome, is the persistence of radicular pain in the face of surgical intervention. Despite its prevalence in 10 to 40% of spine surgery patients, outpatient pharmacologic and interventional management remains poorly characterized.

Methods: The 2007 to 2016 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) was utilized to include all outpatients diagnosed with PLS.

Social Media Responses to Elective Surgery Cancellations in the Wake of COVID-19.

Objective: To assess public response to cancellations of elective surgeries following the American College of Surgeons' (ACS) recommendation on March 13.

Methods: We queried text comments from Reddit, a social media platform and the fifth most popular website in the United States. Comments were manually reviewed to assess for relevance to elective surgery in the United States during the global coronavirus outbreak, whether the text was written by a healthcare worker (HCW), whether the user was based in the United States, and whether the text documented cancellations of surgery, expected cancellations of surgery, or surgery ongoing after the ACS announcement.