Publications by authors named "Sarah L Criddle"
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- * Prone chest compressions were performed immediately during the surgery, allowing the patient to survive without any postoperative issues.
- * The incident highlights the challenges of treating cardiac arrest due to a venous air embolism (VAE) in spinal surgery and suggests that prone chest compressions may be more effective than waiting to switch to supine positioning for CPR.
Electrolyte Disturbances and Repletion in Orthopaedic and Spine Surgery Patients.
J Am Acad Orthop Surg
January 2025
Electrolyte derangement, defined as disorders of clinically impactful physiologic ions such as potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, and phosphate, has a variety of clinical manifestations. These electrolytes have narrow windows of normal in vivo concentration before neurologic, cardiac, renal, or gastrointestinal consequences occur. Perioperative disturbances in electrolyte concentration can lead to increased morbidity and mortality, longer length of stay, and higher rates of short and medium-term readmission in orthopaedic and spine surgery postoperatively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: It is incompletely understood how preoperative resilience affects 1-year postoperative outcomes after lumbar spinal fusion.
Methods: Patients undergoing open lumbar spinal fusion at a single-center institution were identified between November 2019 and September 2022. Preoperative resilience was assessed using the Brief Resilience Scale.