Treatment of Spine Disease in the Elderly

<div>I. Introduction: Elderly specific considerations in Spine disease</div><div>a. Degenerative, Deformity, Trauma, Oncological, Inflammatory/rheumatological, Spinal cord injury) (Dimar)</div><div><br></div><div>II. Special perioperative considerations in the elderly</div><div>a. Bone metabolism: Assessing (DEXA, CT Scan) and medical management advances (Penny Andreopoulu)</div><div>b. Anticoagulation and spine disease in the elderly (Kojo Hamilton)</div><div>c. Managing multiple medical comorbidities – DM, Cardiopulmonary, Obesity/Fraility</div><div>(Medicine)&nbsp;</div><div>d. Anesthetic Concerns and adaptions in the elderly (Pricilla Nelson)</div><div>e. PreHab/Rehab (Leroy Lindsey)</div>f. ERAS (Jennifer Sweet)<div><br><div> </div><div>III. Cervical spine disease in the elderly</div><div>a. Surgical treatment of myelopathy (Zo)</div><div>b. Atlantoaxial fractures in the elderly (Harrop)</div><div>c. MIS Cervical Approaches in the elderly (Hartl)</div><div>d. Subaxial spine trauma (Azdrubal)</div><div>e. Anterior vs Posterior Approaches in the Elderly (Riew)</div><div>f. Management of Ankylosing Spondylitis, DISH, and OPLL (Jau-ching Wu)</div><div>g. Cervical spine deformity in the elderly (Dean Chou)</div><div>h. Spinal cord injury (Hussain, Virk)</div>i. Cervical oncology (Dan Sciubba)<div><br></div><div>IV. Thoracolumbar disease in the elderly</div><div>a. Spondylolisthesis treatment in the elderly (Bisson)</div><div>b. Lumbar stenosis (Bydon)</div><div>c. Sagittal plane deformity considerations in the elderly (Park)</div><div>d. Revision surgery in the elderly (Shaffrey, Than)</div><div>e. Thoracolumbar Trauma (Sansur)</div><div>f. Osteomyelitis (Anthony Digiorgio)</div><div>g. Thoracolumbar oncology (Bilsky, Laufer)</div><div><br></div><div>V. Surgical Technical Advances</div><div>a. Interbody arthrodesis advancements (Fu, Mummaneni, Chan)</div><div>b. Pedicle screw fixation advancements (Buckholz)</div><div>c. EOS and full body imaging (Eastlack)</div><div>d. Navigation & robotics (Uribe, Turner)</div><div>e. Awake spinal surgery (Wang)</div><div>f. Endoscopy (Hofstetter)</div><div><br></div><div>VI. Advances in pain management treatments for elderly patients</div><div>a. CT-Guided radiofrequency ablations (Chazen)</div><div>b. SCS (Piracha)</div><div>c. DRGS (Jatin Joshi)</div><div>d. Sacro-iliac interventions (Polly)</div><div><br></div></div>