Quentin J. Baca, MD, PhD
New York—The first-ever validated predictive model for patients undergoing spine surgery not only elucidates factors that determine postoperative pain, but also opens up the possibility of real-time input from machine learning algorithms. Among other things, the researchers demonstrated that the use of one nonopioid medication during surgery did not result in clinically meaningful pain relief, whereas two or more did so.
Although several perioperative factors have