Recomendaciones para la recuperación posquirúrgica optimizada en columna (REPOC) / Recommendations for enhanced post-surgical recovery in the spine (REPOC)

Introducción y objetivos: La recuperación posquirúrgica optimizada en columna (REPOC) constituye un enfoque multimodal, basado en la evidencia científica disponible, que consigue una mejora eficaz de la funcionalidad fisiológica del paciente, reduce el dolor e incluso disminuye los costes hospitalarios. El objetivo de este trabajo es proponer unos estándares para la aplicación de la REPOC a la cirugía de fusión lumbar. Métodos: Se constituyó ad hoc un grupo multidisciplinario de expertos que revisaron la evidencia disponible y plantearon recomendaciones consensuadas para la artrodesis lumbar, utilizando el sistema Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE). Resultados: Se seleccionaron 23 recomendaciones en las fases preoperatoria, intraoperatoria y postoperatoria de la intervención quirúrgica. También se elaboró una lista de 29 ítems para la aplicación de la REPOC en cirugía de columna. Conclusiones: Este listado de recomendaciones facilitará la implementación del enfoque REPOC como herramienta segura y eficaz para la reducción de los eventos adversos en nuestro entorno.(AU)

Introduction/objectives: Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) constitutes a multimodal approach, based on available scientific evidence, that achieves better patient's functionality, reduces pain, and even lowers financial costs. The present consensus statement proposes the standards for the implementation of ERAS programs to lumbar fusion surgery, a meant benchmark we call REPOC. Methodology: A multidisciplinary group of experts was set up ad hoc to review consensus recommendations for lumbar arthrodesis, using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system. Results: As a result, 23 recommendations were selected throughout the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of the surgical procedure. A 29-item checklist was also drawn up to implement REPOC protocols in spinal surgeries. Conclusions: This list of recommendations will facilitate the implementation of this multimodal approach as a safe and effective tool for reducing adverse events in our environment.(AU)

[Translated article] Recommendations for enhanced post-surgical recovery in the spine (REPOC) / Recomendaciones para la recuperación posquirúrgica optimizada en columna (REPOC)

Introducción y objetivos: La recuperación posquirúrgica optimizada en columna (REPOC) constituye un enfoque multimodal, basado en la evidencia científica disponible, que consigue una mejora eficaz de la funcionalidad fisiológica del paciente, reduce el dolor e incluso disminuye los costes hospitalarios. El objetivo de este trabajo es proponer unos estándares para la aplicación de la REPOC a la cirugía de fusión lumbar. Métodos: Se constituyó ad hoc un grupo multidisciplinario de expertos que revisaron la evidencia disponible y plantearon recomendaciones consensuadas para la artrodesis lumbar, utilizando el sistema Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE). Resultados: Se seleccionaron 23 recomendaciones en las fases preoperatoria, intraoperatoria y postoperatoria de la intervención quirúrgica. También se elaboró una lista de 29 ítems para la aplicación de la REPOC en cirugía de columna. Conclusiones: Este listado de recomendaciones facilitará la implementación del enfoque REPOC como herramienta segura y eficaz para la reducción de los eventos adversos en nuestro entorno.(AU)

Introduction/objectives: Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) constitutes a multimodal approach, based on available scientific evidence, that achieves better patient's functionality, reduces pain, and even lowers financial costs. The present consensus statement proposes the standards for the implementation of ERAS programs to lumbar fusion surgery, a meant benchmark we call REPOC. Methodology: A multidisciplinary group of experts was set up ad hoc to review consensus recommendations for lumbar arthrodesis, using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system. Results: As a result, 23 recommendations were selected throughout the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of the surgical procedure. A 29-item checklist was also drawn up to implement REPOC protocols in spinal surgeries. Conclusions: This list of recommendations will facilitate the implementation of this multimodal approach as a safe and effective tool for reducing adverse events in our environment.(AU)

[Translated article] Recommendations for enhanced post-surgical recovery in the spine (REPOC).

INTRODUCTION/OBJECTIVES: Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) constitutes a multimodal approach, based on available scientific evidence, that achieves better patient's functionality, reduces pain, and even lowers financial costs. The present consensus statement proposes the standards for the implementation of ERAS programmes to lumbar fusion surgery, a meant benchmark we call REPOC. METHODOLOGY: A multidisciplinary group of experts was set up ad hoc to review consensus recommendations for lumbar arthrodesis, using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system. RESULTS: As a result, 23 recommendations were selected throughout the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of the surgical procedure. A 29-item checklist was also drawn up to implement REPOC protocols in spinal surgeries. CONCLUSIONS: This list of recommendations will facilitate the implementation of this multimodal approach as a safe and effective tool for reducing adverse events in our environment.

Recommendations for enhanced post-surgical recovery in the spine (REPOC). / Recomendaciones para la recuperación posquirúrgica optimizada en columna (REPOC).

INTRODUCTION/OBJECTIVES: Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) constitutes a multimodal approach, based on available scientific evidence, that achieves better patient's functionality, reduces pain, and even lowers financial costs. The present consensus statement proposes the standards for the implementation of ERAS programs to lumbar fusion surgery, a meant benchmark we call REPOC. METHODOLOGY: A multidisciplinary group of experts was set up ad hoc to review consensus recommendations for lumbar arthrodesis, using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system. RESULTS: As a result, 23 recommendations were selected throughout the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of the surgical procedure. A 29-item checklist was also drawn up to implement REPOC protocols in spinal surgeries. CONCLUSIONS: This list of recommendations will facilitate the implementation of this multimodal approach as a safe and effective tool for reducing adverse events in our environment.

Postoperative management of patients with pituitary tumors submitted to pituitary surgery. Experience of a Spanish Pituitary Tumor Center of Excellence.

There is a lack of evidence on timing, frequency, and duration of postoperative endocrine, radiologic, and ophthalmologic assessments that should be performed after pituitary surgery (PS). However, it is known that careful optimization of treatment and follow-up strategies as well as a multidisciplinary approach may have a significant impact on long-term outcomes, improving surgical results, minimize complications and facilitate their correct treatment if occurring, and optimize the hormonal, ophthalmological, and radiological reassessment throughout the follow-up. Considering that there are no specific guidelines on the postoperative management of patients with pituitary tumors (PT), we present our protocol for the postoperative management of patients with PT. It has been elaborated by the multidisciplinary team of a Spanish Pituitary Tumor Center of Excellence (PTCE) that includes at least one neurosurgeon, ENT, neuroradiologist, neuro-ophthalmologist, endocrine pathologist and endocrinologist specialized in pituitary diseases. We elaborated this guideline with the aim of sharing our experience with other centers involved in the management of PT thereby facilitating the postoperative management of patients submitted to PS.

Clinical features, diagnosis and therapy of pituicytoma: an update.

BACKGROUND: Pituicytomas (PTs) are extremely rare, low-grade glial tumors closely related to the neurohypophyseal axis. Definite conclusions concerning the optimal diagnostic and therapeutic approach to these neoplasms are lacking to date, as most of this information has been presented as case reports. METHODS: Retrospective review of case reports published in the scientific literature to date, including a new illustrative example treated in our department. RESULTS: 116 cases were collected. PTs had a higher prevalence in the fifth and sixth decades of life, with a slight male predominance. Main symptoms, which tended to be progressive, included visual field defects and pituitary-hypothalamic dysfunction. Radiologically, PTs were found anywhere along the hypothalamic-pituitary axis mimicking other, more frequent tumors growing in this anatomical region. Surgical treatment included both transcranial or transsphenoidal approaches, and resulted in gross total resection and morbidity rates of 46.8 and 59%, respectively; the latter essentially consisted in anterior and posterior pituitary dysfunction, with limited impact on daily quality of life. CONCLUSIONS: Due to both low frequency and the absence of pathognomonic clinical and/or radiological features, formulating a suspicion diagnosis of PT represents a considerable challenge even for experienced professionals. The indication for treatment should be made on an individual basis, but it is inescapable in the presence of a visual field defect. The surgical approach has to be tailored according to the topography of the tumor and preoperative symptoms; the greatest challenges in accomplishing a gross total removal are represented by the degree of adherence and vascularization of the PT.

Fenómeno de Kernohan-Woltman / Kernohan-Woltman notch phenomenon

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