AO Spine
AO Spine is a nonprofit academic organization dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge related to the treatment of spinal injuries and pathologies and their sequelae through research, development, education and quality assurance in the principles, and practice. AO Spine is one of the four clinical divisions of the AO Foundation, the other three being AO Trauma (focusing on muskuloeskeletal trauma), AO CMF (which focuses on craniomaxilofacial trauma and pathologies), and AO Vet (covering both large animals as well as pets). The AO Foundation also operates AO Recon, a clinical unit dealing with reconstructive joint surgery, with emphasis on shoulder, hip and knee.
AO Spine was created in the year 2000 under the name of "AO Specialty Board for Spine Surgery" with the mission of growing the AO Foundation's expertize in spinal pathologies and treatments. Since 2003, when AO Spine created its first four regional boards and started offering membership to orthopedic surgeons specialized in spine as well as neurosurgeons, the organization has grown to over 6000 surgeon members and 30000 registered users. This makes AO Spine the world's largest academic spine and neurosurgeon member-society..[1][2]
Research[edit]
In pursuit of its mission to create knowledge, a significant part of AO Spine's efforts are dedicated to pre-clinical, and clinical research.
The pre-clinical research is conducted in collaboration with the AO Foundation's AO Research Institute Davos (ARI). The focus of ARI's preclinical research is on intervertebral disc, as well as post-op spine infections. AO Spine's clinical research is performed by the AO Spine Knowledge Forums, expert-driven working groups specializing in spine trauma, spinal cord injury, spinal tumors, spine degeneration, and spine deformity.[3] The AO Spine Knowledge Forums perform evidence-based research, the results of which are published in specialized peer-reviewed journals and presented at regional and global conferences, such as AO Spine's Global Spine Congress.[4] The outcome of AO Spine's research is published in open-access format, and key clinical tool research-outcomes such as classification systems and treatment guidelines are available at no cost to surgeons and the general public.[5] Third-party associations and medical facilities are free to redistribute AO Spine's clinical tools to their respective staff and members, as is frequently the case with the imaging morphology-based classification system for spine trauma[6]
AO Spine's research outcomes have had a significant impact on operative and non operative spinal treatment, and AO Spine is widely quoted and referenced in spine peer-reviewed papers across the world.[7][8][9][10][11]
Education[edit]
AO Spine's work in the field of surgeon education takes place in the form of educational events, ranging from presential courses to online webinars.[12] In 2019, AO Spine executed 263 educational events in the course of 2487 faculty-days. Specially authored textbooks are available via specialized publishers, covering the full spine surgery curriculum.[13]. Via these events, nearly 14000 surgeons received knowledge by AO Spine's 1820 certified-faculty.[14]
In 2020 AO Spine announced the introduction of its Global Diploma Training Program. It is the first globally developed spine surgery training for fully graduated orthopedic surgeons, aimed at certifying clinical knowledge of surgeons who reside in parts of the world where no such official or systematic training recognition exists.[15]
Organization[edit]
AO Spine functions under a governance model with the supervision of the AO Spine International Board. The International Board is ran by the International Board Chairperson, and the board's members are either the chairperson for a functional area Commission (the Education Commission, the Research Commission, and the Community Development Commission), or the chairperson for each of the five Regional Boards. Each Regional Board is, in turn, composed of Officers for the same three commissions, as well as officers for Fellowships and Spine Centers (selected clinical institutions where AO Spine's grant-based fellowships take place).[16]
Publications[edit]
Since 2011 AO Spine publishes the Global Spine Journal (GSJ) in collaboration with SAGE Publishing. The GSJ is the only peer-reviewed spine open-access journal ranked by Clarivate Analytics's Impact Factor, and was in the year 2020 the second highest ranked spine journal in the world. The GSJ's impact factor in 2021 is 2.683. The editor-in-chief of the journal is world-renowned Dr. Jeffrey Wang, a spinal surgeon in practice in Keck Medicine of USC and co-director of the USC Spine Center.[17]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Dr. Richard Bransford to Serve as Education Chair of AO Spine North America". University of Washington, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ Scholz, M. (2021). "Das AO Spine Ausbildungskonzept". Die Wirbelsäule. Thieme E-Journals. 5: 35–40. doi:10.1055/a-1264-8948.
- ↑ "6 Spine Societies Highlighted during Spine Summit 2015". Spine Universe (owned by Remedy Health Media). Retrieved 2021-03-31.
- ↑ "Coronavirus leads to cancellation of spine meetings". Spinal News International (owned by Biba Medical). 10 March 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
- ↑ Samartzis, Dino; Germscheid, Niccole M.; Fehlings, Michael G.; Fisher, Charles G.; De Kleuver, Marinus; Öner, F. Cumhur; Yoon, S. Tim; Vialle, Luiz R. (2019). "AOSpine Knowledge Forums: Research in Motion". Global Spine Journal. Sage Publishing. 9 (1 Suppl): 5S–7S. doi:10.1177/2192568219845647. PMC 6512198 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 31157147. - ↑ Dr Francis Deng; Assoc Prof Craig Hacking. "Spine trauma classification systems". Radiopaedia. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ Schroeder, G. D.; Canseco, J. A.; Patel, P. D.; Divi, S. N.; Karamian, B. A.; Kandziora, F.; Vialle, E. N.; Oner, F. C.; Schnake, K. J.; Dvorak, M. F.; Chapman, J. R.; Benneker, L. M.; Rajasekaran, S.; Kepler, C. K.; Vaccaro, A. R.; AO Spine Cervical Classification Validation Group (2021). "Validating the Hierarchical Nature of the AO Spine Subaxial Cervical Spine Injury Classification System". Spine. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 46 (10): 649–657. doi:10.1097/BRS.0000000000003873. PMC 8057527 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 33337687 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Canseco, Jose A.; Schroeder, Gregory D.; Paziuk, Taylor M.; Karamian, Brian A.; Kandziora, Frank; Vialle, Emiliano N.; Oner, F. Cumhur; Schnake, Klaus J.; Dvorak, Marcel F.; Chapman, Jens R.; Benneker, Lorin M.; Rajasekaran, Shanmuganathan; Kepler, Christopher K.; Vaccaro, Alexander R. (2020). "The Subaxial Cervical AO Spine Injury Score". Global Spine Journal. Sage Publishing. doi:10.1177/2192568220974339. PMID 33302725 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Aebi, Max (2013). "AO spine classification system for thoracolumbar fractures". European Spine Journal. SpringerLink. 22 (10): 2147–2148. doi:10.1007/s00586-013-3062-4. PMC 3804686. PMID 24113998.
- ↑ Louie, Philip; Harada, Garrett; Harrop, James; Mroz, Thomas; Al-Saleh, Khalid; Brodano, Giovanni Barbanti; Chapman, Jens; Fehlings, Michael; Hu, Serena; Kawaguchi, Yoshiharu; Mayer, Michael; Menon, Venugopal; Park, Jong-Beom; Qureshi, Sheeraz; Rajasekaran, Shanmuganathan; Valacco, Marcelo; Vialle, Luiz; Wang, Jeffrey C.; Wiechert, Karsten; Riew, K. Daniel; Samartzis, Dino (2020). "Perioperative Anticoagulation Management in Spine Surgery: Initial Findings From the AO Spine Anticoagulation Global Survey". Global Spine Journal. Sage Publishing. 10 (5): 512–527. doi:10.1177/2192568219897598. PMC 7359688 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32677576 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Kaushal, Mayank; Shabani, Saman; Soliman, Hesham M.; Nguyen, Ha Son; Aarabi, Bizhan; Fehlings, Michael G.; Kotter, Mark R.; Kwon, Brian K.; Harrop, James S.; Kurpad, Shekar N. (2020). "The Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Spine Surgeons in Management of Spinal Trauma Across AO Regions–Results of AO Spine Survey". World Neurosurgery. Elsevier ScienceDirect. 137: e389–e394. doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2020.01.200. PMID 32032784 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Bavonratanavech, Suthorn (20 February 2014). "AO Davos Courses". The Bangkok Medical Journal. Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS) Foundation. 07: 102–104. doi:10.31524/bkkmedj.2014.02.022. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
- ↑ Patrick Sugrue MD. "Book Review: AO Spine Masters Series: Volume 4—Adult Spinal Deformities". Neurosurgery. Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
- ↑ "AO Foundation Annual report 2019". Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "AO Spine Global Diploma Training Program". Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "Elected officials of the AO Spine Boards and Commissions". Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "Meet Jeffrey C. Wang, MD". Keck Medicine. October 2013. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
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