Background: Spinal surgery is increasingly ... and outpatient single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with plating (ACDF+P). 1 Departments of Surgery, Neuroscience and Experimental ...

The trend towards ambulatory surgery ... of spinal surgeries being performed in the outpatient setting. [12,13,14,15,16] Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with plating (ACDF+P) is one ...

in which the intervertebral disc is removed and the remaining vertebral bones are fused to create more space in the spinal canal. This procedure is known as an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion ...