Joseph O'Brien
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Minimally Invasive Scoliosis Surgery

Minimally Invasive Scoliosis Surgery Patient Story
Joseph O'Brien
Dr O'Brien presented at 28th IMAST Virtual ...

Dr. O’Brien presented methods of minimally invasive scoliosis correction.

Dr O'Brien presented at 28th IMAST Virtual Session
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Dr O'Brien's Research Accepted for Presentation ...

Presentation at AANS by Dr O’Brien, Dr Feuchtbaum and the WSSI Research Foundation

Dr O'Brien's Research Accepted for Presentation at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons

Minimally Invasive Surgery has higher Success at Long Term Follow up

Good Morning, Washington D.C.!

Recent publications demonstrate that minimally invasive surgery has lower rates of next level operation at 5 and 10 years. The rate of re-operation is 1.5% at 5 years and 6% at 10 years. This rate compares favorably to the open surgery rate of re-operation of 18% at 5 years and 29% at 10 years. In other words, open surgery has a risk of adjacent segment surgery that is 3.97 times higher than minimally invasive surgery.

See the article here: Minimally Invasive Versus Open Surgery 10 year Follow Up

January 2021

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January 2021

2021 is off to a good start. We have received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine without side effects. We are very grateful for this opportunity.

Our team received awards from the Washingtonian and Northern Virginia Magazine for Top Doc’s 2021

Moving forward, our research foundation has approval for 6 prospective studies, with two abstracts submitted to ISASS 2021 and SRS/IMAST 2021.

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Closing out 2020

2020 has been a difficult year for all of us, but there remains hope in the two vaccines released by Pfizer and Moderna. I was vaccinated on 12-18-20 with no side effects. My arm was sore for a day, but I was able to lift weights on the 20th without a problem.

On the bright side, 2020 saw Dr Feuchtbaum start his program in robotic spine surgery at Virginia Hospital Center and Nicole Casale PA-C join our team. Ira Fisch, MD continues to be the anchor in Bethesda, while Virginia Hospital Center has heavily invested in modern spinal equipment to ensure the best for our patients. Currently, we have a Mazor Robot, the Medtronic O-Arm and start of the art Stealth Navigation system. These systems ensure over 98% accuracy in modern minimally invasive spine surgery

Looking forward, a 3rd text book has been accepted by Springer for Publication: Lumbar Spine Access Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide to Anterior and Lateral Approaches by Joseph O’Brien, MD and Joseph Babrowicz, MD. Estimated publication is 2023 January. Our other textbooks can be seen here: The Resident’s Guide to Spine Surgery and The Spine Handbook. For a complete listing of publications see Google Scholar.

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2020

Washingtonian Face of Spine Surgery

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Dr. O'Brien's research accepted for presentation at the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery 2017

Dr O'Brien has 3 podium presentations at the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, in Las Vegas 2017 September.

Paper #6: 2-5 Year Follow Up on S2 Alar Iliac [S2AI] Pelvic Fixation. Evan Smith, MD; Justin Kyhos, MD; Robert Dolitsky, MD; Warren Yu, MD; Joseph OBrien, MD, MPH

Paper #32: Clinical and Radiographic Analysis of Expandable versus Static Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion Devices with One-Year Follow-up.  Joseph OBrien; Richard Frisch, MD; Daina Brooks; Ingrid Luna, MPH; Faisal Siddiqui, MD; and Gita Joshua, MA

Paper #39: In Hospital Narcotic Usage Is Significantly Lower for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery versus Open Spine Surgery.  David Falk, BS; Sachin Gupta, BS; Michael Hoy, BS; Darshan Vora, BS; Christine Piper, MD; Warren Yu, MD; Faisal Siddiqui, MD; Joseph OBrien, MD, MPH

Dr O'Brien presents at the CNS meeting and AAOS meetings

At the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Spine Summit 2017 - 33rd Annual Meeting of the Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, Dr O'Brien presented a lunchtime symposium on minimally invasive spine surgery.  Additionally, he was faculty for the Hands-on Cadaver Lab: Innovative Techniques in Minimally Invasive and Deformity Surgery. 

Additionally at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, Dr O'Brien was chairman of an instructional course lecture on avoiding complications in routine lumbar spine surgery.  

 

 

Dr Joseph O'Brien's research Featured prominently at LSRS

The Lumbar Spine Research society is an important organization with both Orthopaedic Surgeons and Neurological Surgeons presenting cutting edge research on the Lumbar Spine.  This year in Chicago, Dr. Joseph O'Brien will give 4 presentations on lumbar spinal surgery

  1. "2-5 Year Follow Up on S2AI Pelvic Fixation," has found that the mid term follow up in adult spinal scoliosis surgery using S2AI fixation is excellent when compared to other methods. 
  2. 'In Hospital Narcotic Usage Is Significantly Lower for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Versus Open Spine Surgery.'  Dr. O'Brien showed that minimally invasive surgery uses just 1/2 of the narcotics that open surgery uses for the post operative patient.
  3. "Clinical and Radiographic Analysis of Expandable versus Static Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion Devices with One-Year Follow-up," Showed that a new minimally invasive device that Dr. O'Brien investigated has superior radiographic alignment as compared to traditional devices
  4.  An instructional Course Lecture on how ‘to limit intra-operative blood loss in lumbar spinal surgery